The Age of Reform, 1250-1550: An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe

by Steven Ozment

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The seeds of the swift and sweeping religious movement that turned great numbers of Europeans into Protestants in the early 1500's had been sown far back in the late Middle Ages. In this book, Steven Ozment traces the growth and dispersal of dissenting ideologies through three centuries to their explosive burgeoning in the 1500's. He elucidates with great clarity the complex philosophical and theological issues that inspired antagonistic schools, traditions, and movements from Aquinas to Calvin.

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REENACTORS NOTES: Not for the faint of heart or those who want their history spoon feed to them. This is an intense discussion of the formation of the Catholic Church as it stood at the time of Luther and the various influences in both the Church's development and the development of the Reformation movement. Very well researched, hard read for those with little background on the subject.

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