Martin Luther
Subtitle: rebel in an age of upheaval
By: Heinz Schilling ; translated by Rona Johnston
Contributors: Johnston, Rona, translator
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 608
ISBN-13: 9780198722816
Subjects: Lutherans; Reformation; Biography; Clergy
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-578) and index.

Translated from the German.
Table of contents: title: Part one: Childhood, education, and first years as a monk, 1483-1511; title: Part two: Wittenberg and the beginnings of the Reformation, 1511-1525; title: Part three: Prophetic confidence, but temporal failure, 1525-1546; title: Epilogue: Failure and success: Luther and the modern world.