The Long European Reformation by Peter G Wallace
The image of Martin Luther nailing his ninety-five theses to a church door has long epitomised the dramatic turning point from religious dissent to religious reformation. Luther's act, however, was only one of dozens of critical moments in the struggle for religious reform in Europe and the quest among Christians for a purer faith between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries. In this detailed yet approachable study, Peter G. Wallace adeptly interweaves the influential events of the early modern religious reformation with the transformations of political institutions, socio-economic structures, gender relations, and cultural values throughout Europe. In his examination of the European Reformation as a long-term process, Wallace reconnects the classic sixteenth-century religious struggles with the political and religious pressures confronting late medieval Christianity and argues that the resolutions proposed by reformers, such as Luther, were not fully realised for most Christians until the early eighteenth century.
'A skilful account of a long-term process of religious change that links the Middles Ages to the eighteeenth-century, and places religion in its multiple contexts' - Dairmaid McCullough, Journal of Ecclesiastical History
PETER G. WALLACE is Dewar Professor of History and Chair of the History Department at Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780333644515 |
| ISBN 10 | 0333644514 |
| Title | The Long European Reformation |
| Author | Peter G Wallace |
| Series | European History In Perspective |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Year published | 2003-09-11 |
| Number of pages | 280 |
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