LEADER 04069nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910817778503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8014-6853-1 010 $a0-8014-6854-X 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801468544 035 $a(CKB)2560000000101489 035 $a(EBL)3138466 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001074096 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11959761 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001074096 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11201937 035 $a(PQKB)10837093 035 $a(OCoLC)589017812 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28801 035 $a(DE-B1597)478235 035 $a(OCoLC)979576435 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801468544 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138466 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10689190 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL681331 035 $a(OCoLC)922998392 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138466 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000101489 100 $a20721213d1955 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe age of Reformation /$fE. Harris Harbison 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aIthaca, N.Y. $cCornell University Press$dc1955 215 $a1 online resource (160 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aThe development of Western civilization 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a1-322-50049-5 311 0 $a0-8014-9844-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tForeword --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$tI. The European World about 1500 --$tII. The Religious Upheaval --$tIII. The Struggle for Power --$tChronological Summary --$tSuggestions for Further Reading --$tIndex 330 $aIn The Age of Reformation, first published in 1955, E. Harris Harbison shows why sixteenth-century Europe was ripe for a catharsis. New political and social factors were at work-the growth of the middle classes, the monetary inflation resulting from an influx of gold from the New World, the invention of printing, the trend toward centralization of political power. Against these developments, Harbison places the church, nearly bankrupt because of the expense of defending the papal states, supporting an elaborate administrative organization and luxurious court, and financing the crusades. The Reformation, as he shows, was the result of "a long, slow shifting of social conditions and human values to which the church was not responding readily enough. The sheer inertia of an enormous and complex organization, the drag of powerful vested interests, the helplessness of individuals with intelligent schemes of reform-this is what strikes the historian in studying the church of the later Middle Ages."Martin Luther, a devout and forceful monk, sought only to cleanse the church of its abuses and return to the spiritual guidance of the Scriptures. But, as it turned out, western Christendom split into two camps-a division as stirring, as fearful, as portentous to the sixteenth-century world as any in Europe's history. Offering an engaging and accessible introductory history of the Reformation, Harbison focuses on the age's key individuals, institutions, and ideas while at the same time addressing the slower, less obvious tides of social and political change. A classic and long out-of-print synthesis of earlier generations of historical scholarship on the Reformation told with clarity and drama, this book concisely traces the outlines, interlocked and interwoven as they were, of the various phases that comprised the "Age of Reformation." 410 0$aDevelopment of Western civilization. 606 $aReformation 606 $aCounter-Reformation 615 0$aReformation. 615 0$aCounter-Reformation. 676 $a270.6 700 $aHarbison$b E. Harris$g(Elmore Harris),$f1907-1964.$01092033 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910817778503321 996 $aThe age of Reformation$94195355 997 $aUNINA