Thomas Kaufmann is Professor of Church History at the University of Gõttingen, President of the Society for Reformation History, and a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences. He is the author of numerous books on Reformation history, including an acclaimed biography of Martin Luther.

This book - by the greatest living authority on Martin Luther - provides a new history for our times. In gripping prose, Kaufmann explains how the Reformation spread throughout Europe and then globally, and what its legacy is today. Always he keeps an eye on the Ottoman Empire, central to the story. Kaufmann is a sure guide and knows the world of Reformation popular print inside out. This freshly written book brings sixteenth-century religious ideas to life, so that the reader grasps just why salvation and damnation mattered so much, and what the Reformation means in a united Germany now. The book is packed with unforgettable detail and original insight.

• I. Luther and the Reformation 1: A European Event 2: Ideal and Actual Reformations 3: One Reformation or Many? In the Beginning Was Luther II. European Christendom circa 1500 1: Construction of a Continent 2: Structures 3: Nations and Powers in Europe 4: The Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation 5: Shared Spiritual and Clerical Cultures 6: Cultural Awakenings III. The Early Reformation in the Empire, 1517-1530 1: Thirteen Turbulent Years 2: Martin Luther: A Portrait 3: The Drop-out: A Young Augustinian Monk 4: The Exegete of Wittenberg 5: Luther's Break with the Pope 6: The Imperial Diet of Worms, Rebellion, and Upheaval 7: Zwingli and the Urban Reformation in Zurich 8: Intra-Reformation Disputes 9: Political Decisions of Church and State IV. Post-Reformation Europe, 1530-1600 1: Language, Education, Law: Religious Culture Reformed 2: Early Reformation Movements Outside the Empire 3: John Calvin and the Reformed International 4: The Royal Reformations in Scandinavia and England 5: The Pacified, Restive Empire 6: The Transformation of Roman Catholicism 7: Dissenters and Nonconformists 8: Latin Europe after the Reformation V. The Modern Reception of the Reformation 1: Reformation Jubilees: 1617 to 2017 2: Interpretation and Debate VI. The Reformation and the Present: An Appraisal 1: Time Accelerated: A Change or an Apocalypse? 2: Impact on the Modern West 3: Global Protestantism

Thomas Kaufmann is Professor of Church History at the University of Gõttingen, President of the Society for Reformation History, and a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences. He is the author of numerous books on Reformation history, including an acclaimed biography of Martin Luther.

This book - by the greatest living authority on Martin Luther - provides a new history for our times. In gripping prose, Kaufmann explains how the Reformation spread throughout Europe and then globally, and what its legacy is today. Always he keeps an eye on the Ottoman Empire, central to the story. Kaufmann is a sure guide and knows the world of Reformation popular print inside out. This freshly written book brings sixteenth-century religious ideas to life, so that the reader grasps just why salvation and damnation mattered so much, and what the Reformation means in a united Germany now. The book is packed with unforgettable detail and original insight.

• I. Luther and the Reformation 1: A European Event 2: Ideal and Actual Reformations 3: One Reformation or Many? In the Beginning Was Luther II. European Christendom circa 1500 1: Construction of a Continent 2: Structures 3: Nations and Powers in Europe 4: The Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation 5: Shared Spiritual and Clerical Cultures 6: Cultural Awakenings III. The Early Reformation in the Empire, 1517-1530 1: Thirteen Turbulent Years 2: Martin Luther: A Portrait 3: The Drop-out: A Young Augustinian Monk 4: The Exegete of Wittenberg 5: Luther's Break with the Pope 6: The Imperial Diet of Worms, Rebellion, and Upheaval 7: Zwingli and the Urban Reformation in Zurich 8: Intra-Reformation Disputes 9: Political Decisions of Church and State IV. Post-Reformation Europe, 1530-1600 1: Language, Education, Law: Religious Culture Reformed 2: Early Reformation Movements Outside the Empire 3: John Calvin and the Reformed International 4: The Royal Reformations in Scandinavia and England 5: The Pacified, Restive Empire 6: The Transformation of Roman Catholicism 7: Dissenters and Nonconformists 8: Latin Europe after the Reformation V. The Modern Reception of the Reformation 1: Reformation Jubilees: 1617 to 2017 2: Interpretation and Debate VI. The Reformation and the Present: An Appraisal 1: Time Accelerated: A Change or an Apocalypse? 2: Impact on the Modern West 3: Global Protestantism

Thomas Kaufmann is Professor of Church History at the University of Gõttingen, President of the Society for Reformation History, and a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences. He is the author of numerous books on Reformation history, including an acclaimed biography of Martin Luther.

This book - by the greatest living authority on Martin Luther - provides a new history for our times. In gripping prose, Kaufmann explains how the Reformation spread throughout Europe and then globally, and what its legacy is today. Always he keeps an eye on the Ottoman Empire, central to the story. Kaufmann is a sure guide and knows the world of Reformation popular print inside out. This freshly written book brings sixteenth-century religious ideas to life, so that the reader grasps just why salvation and damnation mattered so much, and what the Reformation means in a united Germany now. The book is packed with unforgettable detail and original insight.

• I. Luther and the Reformation 1: A European Event 2: Ideal and Actual Reformations 3: One Reformation or Many? In the Beginning Was Luther II. European Christendom circa 1500 1: Construction of a Continent 2: Structures 3: Nations and Powers in Europe 4: The Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation 5: Shared Spiritual and Clerical Cultures 6: Cultural Awakenings III. The Early Reformation in the Empire, 1517-1530 1: Thirteen Turbulent Years 2: Martin Luther: A Portrait 3: The Drop-out: A Young Augustinian Monk 4: The Exegete of Wittenberg 5: Luther's Break with the Pope 6: The Imperial Diet of Worms, Rebellion, and Upheaval 7: Zwingli and the Urban Reformation in Zurich 8: Intra-Reformation Disputes 9: Political Decisions of Church and State IV. Post-Reformation Europe, 1530-1600 1: Language, Education, Law: Religious Culture Reformed 2: Early Reformation Movements Outside the Empire 3: John Calvin and the Reformed International 4: The Royal Reformations in Scandinavia and England 5: The Pacified, Restive Empire 6: The Transformation of Roman Catholicism 7: Dissenters and Nonconformists 8: Latin Europe after the Reformation V. The Modern Reception of the Reformation 1: Reformation Jubilees: 1617 to 2017 2: Interpretation and Debate VI. The Reformation and the Present: An Appraisal 1: Time Accelerated: A Change or an Apocalypse? 2: Impact on the Modern West 3: Global Protestantism