The Reformation (English and French Edition)

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312037503
• ISBN13: 9780312037505
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 3.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 12.0" x 1.0" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

A shame this book did not attract attention

One must note that this is, first of all, a beautiful book, oversized, packed with illustrations, paintings, drawing and photographs. It easily rests on a coffee table and provides even the uneducated a nice "picture" book (the wood carvings are densely distributed throughout). Secondly, the writing is magnificent - soemthing rarely found in works of this type. The type is tiny so one is rewarded with substantial text and not fluff. It is not a scholarly work although it contains considerable f scholarship. It is, instead, for the educated layman who wishes to know something more about the Reformation than Martin Luther nailed a paper on a church door. It traces the beginnings, the situation at the time and numerous other religious uprisings against the Church. It visits many nations and many influences (politics, humanism, science, industry) and looks at the results of one of the most monumental events in Western history. More than anything the Reformation gave rise to the modern state as we know it today. It broke the stranglehold that Catholicism held on every aspect of daily life and the result was a flowering of industry, science, art and theology.