Martin Luther : rebel in an age of upheaval / Heinz Schilling ; translated by Rona Johnston.

By:

Schilling, Heinz, 1942- [author.]

Contributor(s):

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: German Edition: First editionDescription: xiii, 608 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cmISBN:

9780198722816
0198722818

Uniform titles:

Martin Luther : ein rebell in einer zeit des umbruchs. English.

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DDC classification:

284.1092 23

LOC classification:

D250

Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [545]-578) and index.

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.

Translated from the German.