Martin Luther : rebel in an age of upheaval / Heinz Schilling ; translated by Rona Johnston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schilling, Heinz, 1942- author.

Contributor:

Johnston, Rona, translator.

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Luther, Martin, 1483-1546.

Luther, Martin.

Reformation--Germany--Biography.

Reformation.

Germany.

Lutheran Church--Germany--Clergy--Biography.

Lutheran Church.

Clergy.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 608 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Language Note:

Translated from the German.

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.

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.

Notes:

German edition : Verlag C.J. Beck oHG, München, 2013--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [545]-578) and index.

ISBN:

0198722818

9780198722816

OCLC:

961415094

Online:

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