Description We see the Protestant Reformation as the dawn of an austere, intellectual Christianity that uprooted a ritualized religion steeped in stimulating the senses--and by extension the faith--of its flock.
Baum plumbs a wealth of primary source material from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries to offer the first.
Jacob M.
Historians continue to use the idea as a potent framing device in presenting not just the history of Christianity but the origins of European modernity.
Description We see the Protestant Reformation as the dawn of an austere, intellectual Christianity that uprooted a ritualized religion steeped in stimulating the senses--and by extension the faith--of its flock