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Spotlight On: The Protestant Reformation
A selection of articles from the pages of History Review and History Today on the Protestant Reformation.
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Michael Mullett shows that key Protestant reformers were influenced by Erasmus's Christian Humanism, as well as by Luther's theology. |
Michael Mullett introduces the life and work of a remarkable Protestant leader. |
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Russel Tarr outlines what was at issue in the clash between Catholics and Protestants. |
Michael Mullett defines the Theses' role in the Lutheran Reformation. |
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Michael Mullett looks at the contradictory attitudes and mixed achievements of a courageous reformer. |
How important was the man to the movement? Andrew Pettegree asks what would have happened to the Reformation had the Diet of Worms witnessed its leader’s martyrdom. |
Further Reading
Luther: Sex, Marriage and Motherhood
Martin Luther summarised his view of sex, marriage and motherhood in a letter he wrote to three nuns in 1524, 'A women does not have complete mastery over herself. God created her body that she should be with a man and bear and raise children'.
The Luther Legacy
Derek Wilson looks at the great religious reformer and asks why his life and work have seemed so significant to so many diverse people for almost 500 years.
The Myth of the English Reformation
The ambiguous nature of the Reformation settlement in England has often taxed historians. Diarmaid MacCulloch casts a critical eye over the evidence for a 16th-century half-way house between Catholic and Protestant.
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