In Augsburg, for example, one of Germany's most important political, financial and economic centres, Zwinglian, Anabaptist, Lutheran and Catholic ideas coexisted and the Reformation was anything but a swift urban 'event' – it was a ...
Reformation Europe: Age of Reform and Revolution
For full description, see Renaissance Europe: Age of Recovery and Reconciliation, 2/e.
This is G.R. Elton's classic account of the Reformation, revealing the issues and preoccupations which seemed central to the age and portraying its leading figures with vigour and realism.
Including evidence from the period's rich material culture, alongside a wealth of illustrations, this is the first textbook to use the approaches of the new cultural history to analyse how Reformation Europe came about.