Reformation Europe

The first survey to utilise the approaches of the new cultural history in analysing how Reformation Europe came about.

List of contents

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.

About the author

Ulinka Rublack is Professor of Early Modern European History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John's College. She is author of The Astronomer and the Witch: Johannes Kepler's Fight for His Mother (2015), an Observer Book of the Year, editor of the Oxford History of the Protestant Reformations (2016) and Hans Holbein, The Dance of Death (2016), a Spectator Book of the Year. She was awarded the Bainton prize for her landmark study Dressing Up: Culture Identity in Renaissance Europe (2010).

Summary

Reformation Europe shows how Luther and Calvin built up their charisma and provides a unique discussion of Protestant everyday culture across Europe. The only textbook available to include evidence from the period's rich material culture, it is now updated for the anniversary of the circulation of Luther's ninety-five theses.

Product details

• Authors: Ulinka Rublack, Ulinka (University of Cambridge) Rublack, Rublack Ulinka
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781107018426
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01842-6
• No. of pages: 270
• Series: New Approaches to European History; New Approaches to European His; New Approaches to European History; New Approaches to European His
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Europe, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, c 1500 onwards to present day, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600