How could the Protestant Reformation take off from Wittenberg, a tiny town in Saxony, which contemporaries regarded as a mud hole? And how could a man of humble origins, deeply scared by the devil, become a charismatic leader and convince others that the Pope was the living Antichrist? Martin Luther founded a religion which to this day determines many people's lives, as did Jean Calvin in Geneva one generation later. In this new edition of her best selling textbook, Ulinka Rublack addresses these two tantalising questions. Including evidence from the period's rich material culture, alongside a wealth of illustrations, this is the first textbook to use the approaches of the new cultural history to analyse how Reformation Europe came about. Updated for the anniversary of the circulation of Luther's ninety-five theses, Reformation Europe has been restructured for ease of teaching, and now contains additional references to 'radical' strands of Protestantism.
Author(s): Ulinka Rublack
Series: New Approaches to European History
Edition: 2
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 273
City: Cambridge
Cover
Half-title page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
List of Figures and Map
Acknowledgements for the First Edition
Note on the Second Edition
Chronology
Prologue: Prophecy
1 Locating the Reformation: Martin Luther and Wittenberg
2 Disseminating Luther’s Reformation
3 People and Networks in the Age of the Reformations
4 John Calvin and Geneva
5 Calvinism in Europe
6 A Religion of the Word
7 Protestant Material and Emotional Cultures
Epilogue: a New Cultural History of the Reformation
Further Reading
Index
