The Age of Reform 1250-1550: An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe

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A masterful . . . intellectual and religious history of late medieval and Reformation Europe.Christianity Today "A learned humane and expressive book."Gerald Strauss Renaissance Quarterly The seeds of the swift and sweeping religious movement that reshaped European thought in the 1500s were sown in the late Middle Ages. In this book Steven Ozment traces the growth and dissemination of dissenting intellectual trends through three centuries to their explosive burgeoning in the Reformationsboth Protestant and Catholicof the sixteenth century. He elucidates with great clarity the complex philosophical and theological issues that inspired antagonistic schools traditions and movements from Aquinas to Calvin. This masterly synthesis of the intellectual and religious history of the period illuminates the impact of late medieval ideas on early modern society.