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“prof thomas kaufmann”

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  • The Saved and the Damned

    A History of the Reformation

    by Prof Thomas Kaufmann ...
    Thomas Kaufmann, the leading European scholar of the Reformation, argues that the main motivations behind the Reformation rest in religion itself. The Reformation began far from Europe's traditional political, economic, and cultural power centres, and yet it threw the whole continent into turmoil. There has been intense speculation over the last century focusing on the political and social causes ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

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  • Martin Luther

    Renegade and Prophet

    by Lyndal Roper ...
    From “one of the best of the new [Martin Luther] biographers” (The New Yorker), a portrait of the complicated founding father of the Protestant Reformation, whose intellectual assault on Catholicism transformed Christianity and changed the course of world history.“Magnificent.”—The Wall Street Journal“Penetrating.”—The New York Times Book Review“Smart, accessible, authoritative.”—Hil... ... Read more

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  • Brand Luther

    How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europe--and Started the Protestant Reformation

    by Andrew Pettegree ...
    A revolutionary look at Martin Luther, the Reformation, and the birth of publishing, on the eve of the Reformation’s 500th anniversaryWhen Martin Luther posted his “theses” on the door of the Wittenberg church in 1517, protesting corrupt practices, he was virtually unknown. Within months, his ideas spread across Germany, then all of Europe; within years, their author was not just famous, but ... Read more

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  • Heart of Europe

    A History of the Holy Roman Empire

    by Peter H. Wilson ...
    An Economist and Sunday Times Best Book of the Year“Ambitious…seeks to rehabilitate the Holy Roman Empire’s reputation by re-examining its place within the larger sweep of European history…Succeeds splendidly in rescuing the empire from its critics.”—Wall Street Journal“Engrossing…Wilson is to be congratulated on writing the only English-language work that deals with the empire from start to ... Read more

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  • The European Reformations

    by Carter Lindberg ...
    Combining seamless synthesis of original material with updated scholarship, The European Reformations 2nd edition, provides the most comprehensive and engaging textbook available on the origins and impacts of Europe's Reformations - and the consequences that continue to resonate today.A fully revised and comprehensive edition of this popular introduction to the Reformations of the sixteenth ... Read more

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  • Charlemagne

    by Johannes Fried ...
    Translated by Peter Lewis ...
    When Charlemagne died in 814 CE, he left behind a dominion and a legacy unlike anything seen in Western Europe since the fall of Rome. Distinguished historian and author of The Middle Ages Johannes Fried presents a new biographical study of the legendary Frankish king and emperor, illuminating the life and reign of a ruler who shaped Europe’s destiny in ways few figures, before or since, have ... Read more

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  • Martin Luther

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Scott H. Hendrix ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This introduction presents Martin Luther as historians now see him. Instead of singling him out as a modern hero, the book emphasizes the context in which Luther worked, the colleagues who supported him, and the opponents who adamantly opposed his agenda for change. Scott H. Hendrix explains the religious reformation and Luther's importance, without ignoring the political and cultural forces that ... Read more

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  • The Origins of Nationalism

    An Alternative History from Ancient Rome to Early Modern Germany

    by Caspar Hirschi ...
    In this wide-ranging work, Caspar Hirschi offers new perspectives on the origins of nationalism and the formation of European nations. Based on extensive study of written and visual sources dating from the ancient to the early modern period, the author re-integrates the history of pre-modern Europe into the study of nationalism, describing it as an unintended and unavoidable consequence of the ... Read more

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  • Central Europe in the High Middle Ages

    by Nora Berend, Przemysław Urbańczyk, Przemysław Wiszewski ...
    Series series Cambridge Medieval Textbooks
    This groundbreaking comparative history of the early centuries of Bohemia, Hungary and Poland sets the development of each polity in the context of the central European region as a whole. Focusing on the origins of the realms and their development in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the book concludes with the thirteenth century when significant changes in social and economic structures ... Read more

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  • The Radical Reformation, 3rd ed.

    by George Huntston Williams ...
    Series series Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies
    George Williams' monumental The Radical Reformation has been an essential reference work for historians of early modern Europe, narrating in rich, interpretative detail the interconnected stories of radical groups operating at the margins of the mainline Reformation. In its scope—spanning all of Europe from Spain to Poland, from Denmark to Italy—and its erudition, The Radical Reformation is ... Read more

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  • 1517

    Martin Luther and the Invention of the Reformation

    by Peter Marshall ...
    Martin Luther's posting of the 95 Theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg on 31 October 1517 is one of the most famous events of Western history. It inaugurated the Protestant Reformation, and has for centuries been a powerful and enduring symbol of religious freedom of conscience, and of righteous protest against the abuse of power. But did it actually really happen? In this ... Read more

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  • Reformation Europe

    by Ulinka Rublack ...
    Series Book 54 - New Approaches to European History
    How could the Protestant Reformation take off from Wittenberg, a tiny town in Saxony, which contemporaries regarded as a mud hole? And how could a man of humble origins, deeply scared by the devil, become a charismatic leader and convince others that the Pope was the living Antichrist? Martin Luther founded a religion which to this day determines many people's lives, as did Jean Calvin in Geneva ... Read more

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