The European Reformations ((3))

Catalog description

An analysis of Europe's efforts - collective and personal, religious and social - to reform the Christian church and religious life in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The revolutionary religious and social changes associated with the Protestant and Catholic reformations will be examined within the context of the age's economic, social, political, and cultural developments. Use of primary sources to explore the ideas and actions of the major figures of the age within the broader context of European societies. (Europe/Identities/pre-1700)