The Age of Reform, 1250-1550: An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe

✍ Scribed by Steven Ozment

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 481
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Celebrating the fortieth anniversary of this seminal book, this new edition includes an illuminating foreword by Carlos Eire and Ronald K. Rittges

The seeds of the swift and sweeping religious movement that reshaped European thought in the 1500s were sown in the late Middle Ages. In this book, Steven Ozment traces the growth and dissemination of dissenting intellectual trends through three centuries to their explosive burgeoning in the Reformations—both Protestant and Catholic—of the sixteenth century. He elucidates with great clarity the complex philosophical and theological issues that inspired antagonistic schools, traditions, and movements from Aquinas to Calvin. This masterly synthesis of the intellectual and religious history of the period illuminates the impact of late medieval ideas on early modern society.
 
With a new foreword by Carlos Eire and Ronald K. Rittgers, this modern classic is ripe for rediscovery by a new generation of students and scholars.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Preface
1. The Interpretation of Medieval Intellectual History
2. The Scholastic Traditions
How Man Is Saved: Theories of Salvation from Augustine to Gabriel Biel
How Man Truly Knows: Theories of Knowledge from Augustine to Ockham
What Scripture Means: The Interpretation of the Bible in the Middle Ages
3. The Spiritual Traditions
Critics of Scholasticism
Monastic Piety
The Franciscan Movement
Varieties of Mystical Experience
4. The Ecclesiopolitical Traditions
Secular and Theocratic Concepts of Government
The Pre-eminence of Peter
Royal and Papal Apologists
The Schism and the Rise of the Conciliar Theory of Church Government
The Council of Constance
The Conciliar Movement After Constance
Summary
5. On the Eve of the Reformation
The Growth of Monarchy
Population, Money, and Books
Religious Culture
6. The Mental World of Martin Luther
Young Man Luther
Luther and Scholasticism
Luther and Mysticism
7. Society and Politics in the German Reformation
Imperial Politics in the First Half of the Sixteenth Century
Lutheran Social Philosophy
The Revolt of the Common Man
8. Humanism and the Reformation
Erasmus and Luther
Protestant Reformers: Biblical Humanists or New Scholastics?
Protestantism and Humanist Educational Reforms
9. The Swiss Reformation
Zwingli and Zurich
Conrad Grebel and Swiss Anabaptism
The Working Out of Zwinglianism
10. The Sectarian Spectrum: Radical Movements within Protestantism
11. Calvin and Calvinism
Young Calvin
Political Revolt and Religious Reform in Geneva
Strasbourg and Martin Bucer
Calvin's Geneva: 1541-64
Were Calvinists Really Protestants?
12. Marriage and the Ministry in the Protestant Churches
13. Catholic Reform and Counter Reformation
The Quest for Catholic Reform: From Constance to Trent
The Society of Jesus
14. Protestant Resistance to Tyranny: The Career of John Knox
15. The Legacy of the Reformation
List of Abbreviations
Index
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