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The Oxford Illustrated History of the Reformation (Paperback)
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The Oxford Illustrated History of the Reformation (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Illustrated History
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The Reformation was a seismic event in history, whose consequences
are still working themselves out in Europe and across the world.
The protests against the marketing of indulgences staged by the
German monk Martin Luther in 1517 belonged to a long-standing
pattern of calls for internal reform and renewal in the Christian
Church. But they rapidly took a radical and unexpected turn,
engulfing first Germany and then Europe as a whole in furious
arguments about how God's will was to be 'saved'. However, these
debates did not remain confined to a narrow sphere of theology.
They came to reshape politics and international relations; social,
cultural, and artistic developments; relations between the sexes;
and the patterns and performances of everyday life. They were also
the stimulus for Christianity's transformation into a truly global
religion, as agents of the Roman Catholic Church sought to
compensate for losses in Europe with new conversions in Asia and
the Americas. Covering both Protestant and Catholic reform
movements, in Europe and across the wider world, this beautifully
illustrated volume tells the story of the Reformation from its
immediate, explosive beginnings, through to its profound
longer-term consequences and legacy for the modern world. The story
is not one of an inevitable triumph of liberty over oppression,
enlightenment over ignorance. Rather, it tells how a multitude of
rival groups and individuals, with or without the support of
political power, strove after visions of 'reform'. And how, in
spite of themselves, they laid the foundations for the plural and
conflicted world we now inhabit.
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