Voices of the Reformation

This fascinating collection of primary source documents furnishes the accountsin their own wordsof those who initiated advanced or lived through the Reformation.Starting in 1500 Europe transformed from a united Christendom into a continent bitterly divided between Catholicism and Protestantism by the end of the century. This illuminating text reveals what happened during that period by presenting the social religious economic political and cultural life of the European Reformation of the 16th century in the words of those who lived through it. Detailed and comprehensive the work includes 60 primary source documents that shed light on the character personalities and events of that time and provides context questions and activities for successfully incorporating these documents into academic research and reading projects. A special section provides guidelines for better evaluating and understanding primary documents. Topics include late medieval religion Martin Luther reformation in Germany and the Peasants'' War the rise of Calvinism and the English Reformation.