The Swiss ReformationThe Swiss Reformation was a seminal event of the 16th century and the source of a distinctive Protestant culture whose influence spread across Europe from Transylvania to Scotland. This book provides the first comprehensive study of the subject in any language. The author argues that the movement must be understood in terms of the historical evolution of the Swiss Confederation, its unique and fluid structures, the legacy of the mercenary trade, the distinctive character of Swiss theology, the powerful influence of Renaissance humanism, and, the roles played by the dominant figures, Huldrych Zwingli and Heinrich Bullinger. |
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User Review - CurrerBell - LibraryThingAn extraordinary history of an extraordinary event in European history, the Reformation in Switzerland as it occurred in the mid-16th century, with some consideration of the Swiss Reformation's ... Read full review
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User Review - Widsith - LibraryThingFor more than half a century from the 1520s to the 1570s, the rural backwater that was the Swiss Confederation found itself, rather unexpectedly, at the heart of the European Reformation. This was ... Read full review
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| Title | The Swiss Reformation New Frontiers Series New Frontiers in History The Swiss Reformation, Bruce Gordon |
| Author | Bruce Gordon |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press, 2002 |
| ISBN | 0719051185, 9780719051180 |
| Length | 368 pages |
| Subjects | › History / General |
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