TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schilling,Heinz
AU  - Gordon,Rona Johnston
AU  - Schilling,Heinz
TI  - Martin Luther: rebel in an age of upheaval 
SN  - 9780198722816
AV  - D250 
U1  - 284.1092 23
KW  - Luther, Martin,
KW  - Lutheran Church
KW  - Germany
KW  - Clergy
KW  - Biography
N1  - Originally published as: Martin Luther: ein rebell in einer zeit des umbruchs. [M©ơnchen]: C.H. Beck, 2012; Includes bibliographical references (pages [545]-578) and index
N2  - 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
ER  -