Bibliograph

Martin Luther, rebel in an age of upheaval, Heinz Schilling ; translated by Rona Johnston

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Martin Luther, rebel in an age of upheaval, Heinz Schilling ; translated by Rona Johnston

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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maps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Martin Luther

Oclc number

961415094

Responsibility statement

Heinz Schilling ; translated by Rona Johnston

Sub title

rebel in an age of upheaval

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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