LEADER 03017nam 2200493 450 001 9910824475903321 005 20201008042224.0 010 $a0-19-150461-0 010 $a0-19-150460-2 035 $a(CKB)4340000000192798 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4926464 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000192798 100 $a20170821h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$a1517 $eMartin Luther and the invention of the reformation /$fPeter Marshall 210 1$aNew York, New York :$cOxford University Press,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (243 pages) $cillustrations 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-19-968201-1 327 $aPrologue: Postings -- 1517: theses -- 1517: responses -- 1617: anniversaries -- 1817: heroes -- 1917: controversies -- Epilogue: Reformations. 330 $a"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." 606 $aReformation$zGermany 606 $aReformation$zEurope 606 $aProtestantism 607 $aGermany$xChurch history$y16th century 607 $aEurope$2fast 607 $aGermany$2fast 615 0$aReformation 615 0$aReformation 615 0$aProtestantism. 676 $a274.306 700 $aMarshall$b Peter$0546425 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910824475903321 996 $a1517$93958804 997 $aUNINA