The Reformation Era

by Robert D. Linder

Book Overview

Although religious unrest had been brewing in Western Europe long before Martin Luther nailed his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, historians view this event as the tipping point that shattered the unity of the Medieval Catholic civilization. Disillusioned by Church bureaucracy and awakened by the rise of Renaissance Humanism, Western Europe was primed for an alternative to the old order. Protestant reformers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313318433
• ISBN13: 9780313318436
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.6" x 9.3"