No other German has shaped the history of early-modern Europe more than Martin Luther. In this comprehensive and balanced biography we see Luther as a rebel, but not as a lone hero; as a soldier in a mighty struggle for the universal reform of Christianity and its role in the world. The foundation of Protestantism changed the religious landscape of Europe, and subsequently the world, but the author chooses to show Luther not simply as a reformer, but as an individual. In his study of the Wittenberg monk, Heinz Schilling - one of Germany's leading social and political historians - gives the reader a rounded view of a difficult, contradictory character, who changed the world by virtue of his immense will.

Martin Luther: Rebel in an Age of Upheaval

Biographies & Memoirs

Schilling, Heinz

Johnston Gordon, Rona

Historical

Oxford University Press

Civic Calvinism in Northwestern Germany and the Netherlands: Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries (Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies)

Religion & Spirituality

Truman State Univ Pr

Based on a series of lectures given at the Historical Society of Israel in 2006, this volume offers a rare opportunity for English language readers to appreciate the groundbreaking work of historian Heinz Schilling. As Schilling argues here, the emergence of the European state system was a direct result of the rise of regionally dominant religious beliefs and the resultant formation of national identities. This is not only an introduction to his paradigmatic concept of “confessionalization” and the emergence of the state system in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; it is also an effort to understand the impact of migration and the role of religious minorities as agents of economic, social, and cultural change during this period. The book concludes with a tantalizing discussion of the way in which secular authority did not arise exclusive from religion but was often inspired by the inherent dualism of the Latinate culture, characterized by a long-held separation between the spiritual and secular powers. The very fundamentalisms that fed the inferno of the Thirty Years War were only brought to heel by the very nature of European religious authority. Schilling uses his discussion of the confessionalization concept and the rise of the state system as a model of historical typology that will serve to ease historians’ embrace of post-national, post-European, and global historiography.

Early Modern European Civilization and Its Political and Cultural Dynamism (Menahem Stern Jerusalem Lectures)

Brandeis University Press

In Verbindung mit Peter Blickle, Elisabeth Fehrenbach, Johannes Fried, Klaus Hildebrand, Karl Heinnrich Kaufhold, Horst Möller, Otto Gerhard Oexle, Klaus Tenfelde. Die »Enzyklopädie deutscher Geschichte« erscheint seit 1988. Das Gesamtwerk umfasst ca. 100 Bände zu je ca. 150 Seiten. Alle Bände sind inhaltlich gleichartig gegliedert in: Enzyklopädischer Überblick, Grundprobleme und Tendenzen der Forschung, systematisch geordnete Bibliographie. Jeder Band ist in sich abgeschlossen. Dieses frei zusammenstellbare Handbuch zur deutschen Geschichte führt vertieft in die eigene wissenschaftliche Arbeit ein. Das Wichtigste wird in komprimierter Form präsentiert.

Die Stadt in der Frühen Neuzeit (Enzyklopädie deutscher Geschichte, 24) (German Edition)

History

Ehrenpreis, Stefan

Europe

Walter de Gruyter

Martin Luther: Rebell in einer Zeit des Umbruchs

Beck C. H.

1517: Weltgeschichte eines Jahres

Karl V.: Der Kaiser, dem die Welt zerbrach

Das Christentum und die Entstehung des modernen Europa: Aufbruch in die Welt von heute

Herder Verlag GmbH

1517. Storia mondiale di un anno

Keller

This volume of essays represents Schilling's main fields of interest in early modern European history. The first section of the book deals with urban society in northern Germany and the Netherlands from the 15th to the early 19th centuries. The author discusses social structure and changes, the problems of religion and mentality as well as political culture and thinking. Then follows a section on "Confessionalization", which denotes a fundamental process of social change within Old European society during the second half of the 16th and at the beginning of the 17th century. The final section deals with the Northern Netherlands as a model for early modern modernization and as a successful republican and "bourgeois" alternative to the aristocratic Old European society.

Religion, Political Culture and the Emergence of Early Modern Society: Essays in German and Dutch History (Studies in Medieval & Reformation Thought)

Brill Academic Pub

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