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Author Marshall, Peter, 1964 October 26- author.

Title 1517 : Martin Luther and the invention of the reformation / Peter Marshall.

Publication Info. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.

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Description 1 online resource (278 pages)
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Physical Medium polychrome
Series Ebsco e-books.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-233) and index.
Contents Prologue: Postings -- 1517: theses -- 1517: responses -- 1617: anniversaries -- 1817: heroes -- 1917: controversies -- Epilogue: Reformations.
Summary "Martin Luther's posting of the 95 Theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg on 31 October 1517 is one of the most famous events of Western history. It inaugurated the Protestant Reformation, and has for centuries been a powerful and enduring symbol of religious freedom of conscience, and of righteous protest against the abuse of power. But did it actually really happen? In this engagingly-written, wide-ranging and insightful work of cultural history, leading Reformation historian Peter Marshall reviews the available evidence, and concludes that, very probably, it did not. The theses-posting is a myth. And yet, Marshall argues, this fact makes the incident all the more historically significant. In tracing how--and why--a "non-event" ended up becoming a defining episode of the modern historical imagination, Marshall compellingly explores the multiple ways in which the figure of Martin Luther, and the nature of the Reformation itself, have been remembered and used for their own purposes by subsequent generations of Protestants and others--in Germany, Britain, the United States, and elsewhere. As people in Europe, and across the world, prepare to remember, and celebrate, the 500th anniversary of Luther's posting of the theses, this book offers a timely contribution and corrective. The intention is not to 'debunk', or to belittle Luther's achievement, but rather to invite renewed reflection on how the past speaks to the present--and on how, all too often, the present creates the past in its own image and likeness."-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Reformation -- Germany.
Reformation.
Germany.
Reformation -- Europe.
Europe.
Protestantism.
Germany -- Church history -- 16th century.
Church history.
Chronological Term 16th century
Subject Protestantism.
Protestantism.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
Chronological Term 1500-1599
Genre/Form Church history.
Other Form: Print version: Marshall, Peter, 1964 October 26- 1517. First edition. Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017 9780199682010 (DLC) 2016963341 (OCoLC)1002073110
ISBN 9780191504600 (electronic book)
0191504602 (electronic book)
9780199682010
0199682011