The age of reform (1250-1550)
Subtitle: an intellectual and religious history of late medieval and Reformation Europe
By: Steven Ozment.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1980
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 458
Subjects: Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500; Reformation; Theology, Doctrinal -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500; Theology, Doctrinal -- History -- 16th century; Religious thought -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
Description: "Ozment does a wonderful job of showing that the story of the Reformation does NOT begin with the posting of the 95 theses in 1517. Rather, the events of the 1500s were the culmination of a centuries-old search for truth. Ozment's account of the Reformation as something unfolding out of the Middle Ages is much more instructive than the standard view, which treats the Reformation as a starting point for this or that development. This book grounds Luther, Zwingli, Calvin, and Ignatius firmly in the tradition of medieval scholastic, mystic, and ecclesio-political thought, as well as Renaissance humanism. Additional chapters are devoted to clerical marriage and resistance to tyranny, two legacies of Protestantism that Ozment finds particularly compelling. To top it off, the author has obviously done his homework; every significant interpretation by previous scholars receives due note here"--Amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.