Martin Luther, rebel in an age of upheaval, Heinz Schilling ; translated by Rona Johnston
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Label
Martin Luther, rebel in an age of upheaval, Heinz Schilling ; translated by Rona Johnston
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [545]-578) and index
resource.biographical
individual biography
Illustrations
illustrationsmaps
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Martin Luther
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
961415094
Responsibility statement
Heinz Schilling ; translated by Rona Johnston
Sub title
rebel in an age of upheaval
Summary
No other German has shaped the history of early-modern Europe more than Martin Luther. In this comprehensive and balanced biography we see Luther as a rebel, but not as a lone hero; as a soldier in a mighty struggle for the universal reform of Christianity and its role in the world. The foundation of Protestantism changed the religious landscape of Europe, and subsequently the world, but the author chooses to show not simply as a reformer, but as an individual. In his study of the Wittenberg monk, Heinz Schilling - one of Germany's leading social and political historians - gives the reader a rounded view of a difficult, contradictory character, who changed the world by virtue of his immense will
Table Of Contents
Part one: Childhood, education, and first years as a monk, 1483-1511 -- Part two: Wittenberg and the beginnings of the Reformation, 1511-1525 -- Part three: Prophetic confidence, but temporal failure, 1525-1546 -- Epilogue: Failure and success: Luther and the modern world