{"product_id":"europes-reformations-1450-1650-doctrine-politics-and-community-paperback","title":"Europe's Reformations, 1450-1650: Doctrine, Politics, and Community - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJames D. Tracy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this widely praised history, noted scholar James D. Tracy offers a comprehensive, lucid, and masterful exploration of early modern Europe's key turning point. Establishing a new standard for histories of the Reformation, Tracy explores the complex religious, political, and social processes that made change possible, even as he synthesizes new understandings of the profound continuities between medieval Catholic Europe and the multi-confessional sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This revised edition includes new material on Eastern Europe, on how ordinary people experienced religious change, and on the pluralistic societies that began to emerge. \u003cbr\u003eReformation scholars have in recent decades dismantled brick by brick the idea that the Middle Ages came to an abrupt end in 1517. Martin Luther's Ninety-five Theses fitted into an ongoing debate about how Christians might better understand the Gospel and live its teachings more faithfully. Tracy shows how Reformation-era religious conflicts tilted the balance in church-state relations in favor of the latter, so that the secular power was able to dictate the doctrinal loyalty of its subjects. Religious reform, Catholic as well as Protestant, reinforced the bonds of community, while creating new divisions within towns, villages, neighborhoods, and families. In some areas these tensions were resolved by allowing citizens to profess loyalty both to their separate religious communities and to an overarching body-politic. This compromise, a product of the Reformations, though not willed by the reformers, was the historical foundation of modern, pluralistic society. \u003cbr\u003eRichly illustrated and elegantly written, this book belongs in the library of all scholars, students, and general readers interested in the origins, events, and legacy of Europe's Reformation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames D. Tracy\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of history at the University of Minnesota. A leading scholar of early modern Europe, he is the author of \u003ci\u003eErasmus of the Low Countries\u003c\/i\u003e (1996), \u003ci\u003eEmperor Charles V, Impresario of War\u003c\/i\u003e (2002), \u003ci\u003eThe Low Countries in the 16th Century\u003c\/i\u003e (2005), and \u003ci\u003eThe Founding of the Dutch Republic\u003c\/i\u003e (forthcoming). He is also a founding editor and current editor of the \u003ci\u003eJournal for Early Modern History\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 392\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.96 x 9 x 6.07 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 09, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51778133590304,"sku":"9780742537897","price":95.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/a51d1e9512d7a7f505067604b8ebdeae.webp?v=1780505148","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/europes-reformations-1450-1650-doctrine-politics-and-community-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}