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The Holy Roman Empire : a very short introduction
\"Joachim Whaley outlines the fascinating thousand-year history of the Holy Roman Empire. Throughout its lifetime, the empire's growth and history was shaped by the major developments in Europe, from the Reformation, to the Thirty Years War, to the French revolutionary wars, which led to Napoleon destroying the empire in 1806. Joachim Whaley analyzes the empire's crucial impact and role in the history of European power and politics, and shows that there has never been a more durable political system in German history.\"-- Publisher's description.
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THE WORLD THAT LUTHER MADE
THE appearance of a new account of the Protestant Reformation in its European context thus arouses considerable expectations. Mr. [Lewis W. Spitz]'s book (a volume in the established but uneven series ''The Rise of Modern Europe'') fulfills at least some of them. His book covers more ground than G. R. Elton's ''Reformation Europe,'' published in 1963 (still the most elegant and penetrating survey). Mr. Spitz includes a brief but illuminating discussion of the Turkish and Russian empires. Above all, he has an excellent chapter on the English Reformation, which Mr. Elton's survey lacks. Two important general points emerge from this account. ''Not since the fourth and fifth centuries after Christ, days of heresy and schism, had the church faced a crisis of the magnitude it now confronted,'' Mr. Spitz writes of the beginning of the Reformation. But far from undermining Christianity, the Reformation enabled it to survive. The formal unity of Christendom was destroyed. But Mr. Spitz argues that the post-Reformation churches were infused with a new vitality and spirituality. Significantly, the new spirituality was fully integrated into daily life. As Mr. Spitz puts it: ''[Martin Luther] was the 'Copernicus of theology'; his theology was more concerned with the elevation of man than with the appeasement of God.'' Why did they take root in England but not in Spain? Why was the English Reformation different from the French? And finally, how does one begin to assess the long-term significance of this complex of religious, social and political movements for the development of Europe? Mr. Spitz leaves the reader to speculate about ''connections and correlations.'' But surely most readers will need and rightly expect more guidance. This book contains much useful information and many acute insights. The observation that ''the full story of the spread of Protestantism has never been told'' is not least among them.
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