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The age of reform (1250-1550) : an intellectual and religious history of late medieval and Reformation Europe

"Ozment does a wonderful job of showing that the story of the Reformation does NOT begin with the posting of the 95 theses in 1517. Rather, the events of the 1500s were the culmination of a centuries-old search for truth. Ozment's account of the Reformation as something unfolding out of the Middle Ages is much more instructive than the standard view, which treats the Reformation as a starting point for this or that development. This book grounds Luther, Zwingli, Calvin, and Ignatius firmly in the tradition of medieval scholastic, mystic, and ecclesio-political thought, as well as Renaissance humanism. Additional chapters are devoted to clerical marriage and resistance to tyranny, two legacies of Protestantism that Ozment finds particularly compelling. To top it off, the author has obviously done his homework; every significant interpretation by previous scholars receives due note here"--Amazon.com
Print Book, English, 1980
Yale University Press, New Haven, 1980
History
xii, 458 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
9780300024777, 9780300027600, 9780300186680, 0300024770, 0300027605, 0300186681
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The interpretation of medieval intellectual history
The scholastic traditions
The spiritual traditions
The ecclesiopolitical traditions
On the eve of the Reformation
The mental world of Martin Luther
Society and politics in the German Reformation
Humanism and the Reformation
The Swiss Reformation
The sectarian spectrum : radical movements within Protestantism
Calvin and Calvinism
Marriage and the ministry in the Protestant churches
Catholic reform and the Counter Reformation
Protestant resistance to tyranny : the career of John Knox
The legacy of the Reformation
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