Reformation Europe (New Approaches to European History Series Number 54)

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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 peoples 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 periods 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 Luthers ninety-five theses Reformation Europe has been restructured for ease of teaching and now contains additional references to radical strands of Protestantism.