Communal Reformation: The Quest for Salvation in Sixteenth-Century Germany

Communal Reformation: The Quest for Salvation in Sixteenth-Century Germany
ISBN-10
0391037307
ISBN-13
9780391037304
Category
History
Pages
219
Language
English
Published
1992
Publisher
BRILL
Author
Peter Blickle

Description

Communal Reformation is the most original and provocative book to appear in its field in the past quarter-century. It met with an enthusiastic response, particularly in England and the United States, when first published in Germany in 1985 and is now available in translation. Peter Blickle's groundbreaking study, which is intended for scholars and students interested in the history of pre-modern Europe, the development of Germany, the history of Christianity, and historical sociology, reconstructs the connection between the crisis of rural society at the end of the Middle Ages, the great Peasants' War of 1525, and the reformation as a social movement. Blickle focuses on southern Germany, Switzerland, and Austria in the later Middle Ages and Early Modern eras (roughly 1400 to 1600), though his work has important implications for the social and religious history of Europe as a whole.

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