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The Oxford Illustrated History of the Reformation
Peter Marshall (Ed.)
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Description for The Oxford Illustrated History of the Reformation
Hardback. The Oxford Illustrated History of the Reformation is the story of one of the truly epochal events in world history - and how it helped create the world we live in today Editor(s): Marshall, Peter. Series: Oxford Illustrated History. Num Pages: 320 pages, 120 black and white illustrations, 14 colour plates, 12 maps. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JB; HBJD; HBLH; HRCC2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 255 x 193 x 18. Weight in Grams: 812.
The Reformation was a seismic event in history, whose consequences are still working themselves out in Europe and across the world. The protests against the marketing of indulgences staged by the German monk Martin Luther in 1517 belonged to a long-standing pattern of calls for internal reform and renewal in the Christian Church. But they rapidly took a radical and unexpected turn, engulfing first Germany and then Europe as a whole in furious arguments about how God's will was to be discerned, and how humans were to be 'saved'. However, these debates did not remain confined to a narrow sphere of theology. They came to reshape politics and international relations; social, cultural, and artistic developments; relations between the sexes; and the patterns and performances of everyday life. They were also the stimulus for Christianity's transformation into a truly global religion, as agents of the Roman Catholic Church sought to compensate for losses in Europe with new conversions in Asia and the Americas. Covering both Protestant and Catholic reform movements, in Europe and across the wider world, this beautifully illustrated volume tells the story of the Reformation from its immediate, explosive beginnings, through to its profound longer-term consequences and legacy for the modern world. The story is not one of an inevitable triumph of liberty over oppression, enlightenment over ignorance. Rather, it tells how a multitude of rival groups and individuals, with or without the support of political power, strove after visions of 'reform'. And how, in spite of themselves, they laid the foundations for the plural and conflicted world we now inhabit.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
New
Series
Oxford Illustrated History
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199595488
SKU
V9780199595488
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Ref
99-1
About Peter Marshall (Ed.)
Peter Marshall was born and raised in the Orkney Islands, and educated at Oxford University. Since 1994, he has taught at the University of Warwick, and has been Professor of History there since 2006. He is a specialist in the history of the Reformation, particularly its impact in the British Isles, and has written six books and nearly fifty articles around these themes. He is a winner of the Harold J. Grimm Prize for best article in Reformation History. An editorial board member of Sixteenth Century Journal, he is a co-editor of English Historical Review. He also appears regularly on TV and radio to discuss the Reformation and history of religion, and is a frequent reviewer for a range of periodicals, including the Times Literary Supplement, Literary Review, and The Tablet. He is married with three daughters, and lives in Leamington Spa.
Reviews for The Oxford Illustrated History of the Reformation
This is a fine book, beautifully produced, providing an easily accessible distillation of some of the best recent scholarship of the Reformation. A work of this kind is a vital resource for anyone concerned to understand what ideas, events and convictions compelled the sea changes in Christianity that took place in the sixteenth century, and, no less important, to understand the repercussions of these changes which are still felt today.
Anne Dillon, Times Literary Supplement
This short volume does a magnificent job in providing a birds eye view of the Protestant Reformation, including appropriate maps. and illustrations that grip the historical imagination.
Mark Greengrass, University of Sheffield, Huguenot Society Journal
...a scintillating collection of essays that challenges conventional views of the Reformation
Tablet, Lucy Wooding
This book does a fine job of unfolding the intricately decorated and richly textured fabric of this extraordinary era.
Tablet, Lucy Wooding
expert essays
Theology, Diarmaird MacCulloch
an outstanding work of church history
Church of England Newspaper
Splendid book
Catholic Herald
Compelling collection...Brilliantly assembled by Peter Marshall
Literary Review Paul Lay
it bears comparison with the very best studies and compendia... a a hearty 'bravo' is in order
Herald, Jonathan Wright
Wonderful... It's a huge achievement by Marshall, and by OUP, that cleverly gets the ball rolling head of the 500th anniversary of Luther's posting of his Ninety-five Theses
Oxford Today
This is a classic Illustrated Oxford History volume: its wealth of pictures forms an instructive rather than merely decorative complement to a text from some of the leading experts in the field, who present a fine panorama of current thinking on this formative era for the modern West.
Diarmaid MacCulloch, University of Oxford, and author of A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years
An outstanding work of church history.
Paul Richardson, Church of England Newspaper
Anne Dillon, Times Literary Supplement
This short volume does a magnificent job in providing a birds eye view of the Protestant Reformation, including appropriate maps. and illustrations that grip the historical imagination.
Mark Greengrass, University of Sheffield, Huguenot Society Journal
...a scintillating collection of essays that challenges conventional views of the Reformation
Tablet, Lucy Wooding
This book does a fine job of unfolding the intricately decorated and richly textured fabric of this extraordinary era.
Tablet, Lucy Wooding
expert essays
Theology, Diarmaird MacCulloch
an outstanding work of church history
Church of England Newspaper
Splendid book
Catholic Herald
Compelling collection...Brilliantly assembled by Peter Marshall
Literary Review Paul Lay
it bears comparison with the very best studies and compendia... a a hearty 'bravo' is in order
Herald, Jonathan Wright
Wonderful... It's a huge achievement by Marshall, and by OUP, that cleverly gets the ball rolling head of the 500th anniversary of Luther's posting of his Ninety-five Theses
Oxford Today
This is a classic Illustrated Oxford History volume: its wealth of pictures forms an instructive rather than merely decorative complement to a text from some of the leading experts in the field, who present a fine panorama of current thinking on this formative era for the modern West.
Diarmaid MacCulloch, University of Oxford, and author of A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years
An outstanding work of church history.
Paul Richardson, Church of England Newspaper