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- ISBN 9781540968517
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Dec 2026
- Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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During the Reformation, theologians wrote, colleagues annotated, scribes recorded, and printers toiled, bringing Protestant doctrine and practice to life and transforming European society. Demonstrating the benefit of integrating histories of culture and scholarship with historical theology, this book invites readers to view the Reformation and its writings with fresh eyes.
Instead of focusing solely on the printing press as an agent of change, Reading the Reformation recalls the forgotten methods of writing, annotating, publishing, and preserving texts by key Protestant reformers, from Martin Luther to John Calvin, from Martin Bucer to the Westminster Assembly. Zachary Purvis covers a broad range of topics, meticulously illuminating the physical and mental labor behind the texts that fostered the Reformation.
This book is an indispensable resource for students, scholars, history enthusiasts, and anyone interested in the transformative power of the written word during one of the most pivotal eras of European history.
Instead of focusing solely on the printing press as an agent of change, Reading the Reformation recalls the forgotten methods of writing, annotating, publishing, and preserving texts by key Protestant reformers, from Martin Luther to John Calvin, from Martin Bucer to the Westminster Assembly. Zachary Purvis covers a broad range of topics, meticulously illuminating the physical and mental labor behind the texts that fostered the Reformation.
This book is an indispensable resource for students, scholars, history enthusiasts, and anyone interested in the transformative power of the written word during one of the most pivotal eras of European history.
Zachary Purvis (DPhil, University of Oxford) is lecturer in theology and church history at Edinburgh Theological Seminary in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. He previously held postdoctoral positions at the University of Göttingen, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the University of Edinburgh. He has also been a US Fulbright Fellow in Switzerland, a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and a fellow of the Leibniz Institute for European History. Purvis is the author of the prize-winning Theology and the University in Nineteenth-Century Germany.
