The Reformation: a history [Modern Library ed] 9780307432544, 0307432548

Table of contents :
Reformation? What reformation? --
The last medieval church and its reformation --
Words, language, and books --
Luther discovers the gospel and challenges the church --
Alternative patterns of reformation --
Calvin and Calvinism --
Counter-reformation --
Exceptional cases: the reformation in the British Isles --
Politics --
People --
Art --
A reformation watershed?

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