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Martin Luther
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.
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Religion, Political Culture, and the Emergence of Early Modern Society
This volume of essays by Heinz Schilling represents his three main fields of interest in early modern European history. The first section of the book, entitled 'Urban Society and Reformation', deals with urban society in northern Germany and the Netherlands from the fifteenth to the early nineteenth centuries. The author discusses social structure and changes, the problems of religion and mentality as well as political culture and thinking. The second section, 'confessionalization and Second Reformation', treats the paradigm 'Confessionalization', which denotes a fundamental process of social change within Old European society during the second half of the sixteenth and at the beginning of t...
Early Modern European Civilization and Its Political and Cultural Dynamism
A discussion of the author's confessionalization paradigm as a model for understanding European state formation
The Religious Enlightenment
"Sorkin is right to argue that enlightenment and faith went together for most participants in the Enlightenment, and that this is a major topic that has been relatively neglected. He has written an outstanding and eminently accessible book bringing the whole question centrally to scholars' attention. He skillfully demonstrates that all confessions and religious traditions found themselves very much in a common predicament and sought similar solutions."--Jonathan Israel, Institute for Advanced Study "Powerfully cogent. Sorkin seeks to show that the 'religious Enlightenment' was not a contradiction in terms but was an integral and central part of the Enlightenment. Anyone interested in the history of the Enlightenment in particular or the eighteenth century in general will want to read this book. Sorkin is one of the leading scholars working in the field. His scholarship is as wide as it is deep."--Tim Blanning, University of Cambridge
Wege der Neuzeit
Wie nur wenige hat der an der Berliner Humboldt-Universität lehrende Historiker Heinz Schilling Gegenstände und Methodik der Frühneuzeitforschung geprägt. Die einflussreichen Studien, die er zu Konfessionalisierung und Sozialdisziplinierung, zur Geschichte der Stadt und zur Entstehung des internationalen Systems vorgelegt hat, spiegeln sich in dieser internationalen Festschrift anlässlich seines 65. Geburtstags wider.Das Wirken des Jubilars für die deutsche und europäische Geschichtswissenschaft zur Frühen Neuzeit und seine internationale Reputation werden in 30 Beiträgen von Autoren aus Europa und den USA dokumentiert. Die um die Themenkreise "Reformation und Konfession" sowie "Politik, Staat und internationales System" gruppierten Aufsätze greifen Schwerpunkte der Forschung zum 16. und 17. Jahrhundert auf und fragen nach den langfristigen "Wegen der Neuzeit".
Dealings with God
Early modern European society took a serious view of blasphemy, and drew upon a wide range of sanctions - including the death penalty - to punish those who cursed, swore and abused God. Whilst such attitudes may appear draconian today, this study makes clear that in the past, blasphemy was regarded as a very real threat to society. Based on a wealth of primary sources, including court records, theological and ecclesiastical writings and official city statutes, Francisca Loetz explores verbal forms of blasphemy and the variety of contexts within which it could occur. Honour conflicts, theological disputation, social and political provocation, and religious self-questioning all proved fertile ...
Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe
This volume, first published in 2007, examines the role of religion as a vehicle for cultural exchange.
