The European Reformations Sourcebook
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing, Incorporated
Published: November 1, 1999
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780631213611
First sentence: By the eve of the Reformation, European society had experienced the natural disaster of the plague (1.1, 1.2) and social challenges to authority (1.3) that, along with widespread perceptions of ecclesiastical corruption, prompted a widespread sense of moral crisis (1.4).