The Reformation
By: Patrick Collinson
Series: Universal history
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780753818633
Subjects: Reformation; Reformatie
Description: Although for generations the Reformation was regarded as a major turning point in European history, in recent years its significance has been downgraded. But in this book Professor Collinson sets out to restore a sense of the Reformation as a momentous historical event. He brilliantly explores the complexities and corruption of the late-medieval Catholic Church - and the Europe-wide reform movement which produced Lutherans, Calvinists, Huguenots, Presbyterians and the Church of England, and which profoundly shaped the identity of the emerging nation-states of Europe.
Notes: Originally published: London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Reformation, what Reformation?; title: Late medieval church and its reformation; title: Words, language and books; title: Luther discovers the Gospel and challenges the Church; title: Alternative patterns of reformation; title: Calvin and Calvinism; title: Counter-Reformation; title: Exceptional cases: the Reformation in the British Isles; title: Politics; title: People; title: Art; title: Reformation watershed?