Written by an experienced university history lecturer, this book presents key facts of the European Reformation in a straightforward fashion to help the student understand the key reformers and their basic reforming principles.
Cultural origins of the Reformation; intellectual origins of the Reformation; Martin Luther: the rejection of tradition; the urban reformers; the radical reformation; Karlstadt & proto-puritanism; John Calvin; the counter- or Catholic Reformation; the legacy of the Reformation.