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A Nearly Infallible History of the Reformation

Commemorating 500 years of Popes, Protestants, Reformers, Radicals and Other Assorted Irritants [Paperback]

by Nick Page

The humorous and fast-moving unlicensed historian Nick Page explores how the Reformation is more complex and strange than you could ever predict.

  • Want a humorous introduction to the Reformation?

  • Nick Page uses his wit and unlicensed-historian-credentials to explore a remarkable period in Church history.

  • Perfect as a gift for anyone wanting to laugh, learn, and discover Luther's groundbreaking faith

  • Author

    Nick Page

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Hodder & Stoughton

  • Published

    June 2018

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500 years on from the Reformation, Nick Page distils what we really need to know about Luther, Calvin and all those other serious religious types in his usual irreverent but informative style.

500 years ago, Martin Luther nailed his ideas to a church door - and the Reformation began. Or maybe it was a little more complicated than that.

Nick Page brings his skills as an unlicensed historian to bear on this key period in European (and world) history in order to uncover everything you need to know about the Reformation - with a fair few bits you never wanted to know thrown in for good measure.

Historians tell us that the Protestant Reformation laid the foundations for the Industrial Revolution, religious freedom, and all sorts of other Good Things. But what actually happened? Who were the winners and the losers, the ogres and the beauty queens of this key moment in church history? (spoiler: there weren't any beauty queens)

In-depth research, historical analysis and cutting-edge guesswork combine to scintillating effect in this fast-moving examination of the strange and wonderful whirlwind that was church life in late medieval Europe.

'You were predestined to read this.' John Calvin

Introduction: The fastest-selling Playmobil figure ever

Part One: The Road to Reformation

1. The medieval mindscape

2. The escape of knowledge

3. I, Albrecht Durer

4. The talented Mr Erasmus

Part Two: The Wittenberg Door

5. Becoming Martin Luther

6. The indulgence-selling scandal

7. Loo-ther

8. Diets and disruptions

Part Three: Here Comes Mr Everybody

9. The word on the street

10. The Martinians

11 Revolting peasants

12. Relationships and other problems

Part Four: The Swiss Role

13. Zwinglin' in the rain

14. Politics and popes

15. Danish blues

16. The radical reformation

Part Five: Crash Diets

17. Protesting cities

18. Disunited we stand

Part Six: D.I.V.O.R.C.E

19. William Tyndale

20. Horrid Henry

Part Seven: Defeats and Death

21. Jean Cauvin

22. Munster

23. Losing Luther

Part Eight: The Counter-Attack

24. The really long meeting

25. Getting all Jesuitical

26. Ending Trent

Part Nine: Welcome to Calvingrad

27. The return to Geneva

28. Preserving purity

29. The International Brotherhood of the Elect

Part Ten: The Disunited Kingdom

30. Evangelical Eddy and scary Mary

31. Good Queen Bess

32. Our friends in the north

33. God's silly vassal

34. Our friends in the west

Part Eleven: Revolution

35. The Low Countries

36. Religious wars

Epilogue: The world on fire

The Reformation: a chronology

Index

Prized for his skills as a writer, speaker, unlicensed historian, applied ranter and general information-monger, Nick Page has written over 70 books, including The Tabloid Bible, THE LONGEST WEEK trilogy, A NEARLY INFALLIBLE HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY, looking at the history of the Christian church down the centuries, and, most recently, THE DARK NIGHT OF THE SHED. Nick lives in Oxfordshire with his wife Claire and their three daughters.

Specification

  • Author

    Nick Page

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Hodder & Stoughton

  • Published

    June 2018

  • Weight

    452g

  • Page Count

    464

  • Dimensions

    138 x 216 x 34 mm

  • ISBN

    9781444749700

  • ISBN-10

    1444749706

  • Eden Code

    4532764

More Information

  • Author/Creator: Nick Page

  • ISBN: 9781444749700

  • Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

  • Release Date: June 2018

  • Weight: 452g

  • Dimensions: 138 x 216 x 34 mm

  • Eden Code: 4532764


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