Martin Luther : rebel in an age of upheaval

• Tác giả: Rona Johnston, Heinz Schilling
• Ngôn ngữ: eng ; ger
• ISBN-10: 0198722818
• ISBN-13: 978-0198722816
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 940.2 1453
• Mô tả vật lý: xiii, 608 pages : , illustrations, maps ; , 24 c
• Bộ sưu tập: Lịch sử, Địa lý
• ID: 280096
• Chủ đề: 1. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Religious; 2. Lutherans--Clerg--Germany; 3. Reformation--German; 4. Reformation--Germany; 5. Lutherans; 6. Reformation; 7. HISTORY--Great Britain--Europe; 8. RELIGION--History

Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-578) and inde

Tóm tắt

 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 Luther 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 wil