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Prologue: Postings
1: 1517: Theses
2: 1517: Responses
3: 1617: Anniversaries
4: 1817: Heroes
5: 1917: Controversies
Epilogue: Reformations
Notes
Bibliography
Picture Credits
Index
Peter Marshall, a native of the Orkney Islands, has since 2006 been
Professor of History at the University of Warwick, and is a leading
expert in the history of the Reformation and its impact in the
British Isles and beyond. He is a winner of the Harold J. Grimm
Prize for Reformation History, and has been shortlisted for the
Longman/History Today Book of the Year Award. He is co-editor of
the English Historical Review, a frequent reviewer for the TLS,
Literary Review, Tablet and other periodicals, and a regular
lecturer to school and community groups. He is married with three
daughters, and lives in Leamington Spa.
Marshall's narrative skills and his probing analysis are equally
enjoyable and insightful. His work is a reminder that histories and
anniversaries are contextual, with one eye on the past and the
other on the present ... an engaging and stimulating look not only
at an historical event, but how such an event took on an oversized
life of its own through anniversary celebrations over the
centuries.
*Mark A. Granquist, Reading Religion*
Wonderful... an enlightening and convincing discussion of the
elaboration of a historical and cultural myth.
*Mark Konnert, H-Albion*
Insightful and illuminating.
*Andrew Pettegree, Theology*
An absorbing and scholarly work, cramming a huge amount into just
over 200 pages.
*Alan Wakely, The Reader*
A fascinating re-examination of the celebrated events of 1517 and
their impact on Western history.
*Simon Burton, The Expository Times*
Highly recommended.
*Church of England Newspaper*
1517 sorts fact from fiction and provides an intriguing case study
of the way historical memory is created.
*Jonathan Wright, Catholic Herald*
Compelling.
*Anne Inman, Pastoral Review*
In 1517, Peter Marshall rounds up all the available evidence ...
and lays it tidily before us with both clarity and a puckish
enjoyment of its more absurb manifestations ... In this
quincentennial year, the market is inevitably awash with books on
Luther and the Protestant Reformation. If you only want to read one
or two of them ... you could do a great deal worse than starting
here.
*Moira Briggs, Vulpes Libris*
Anyone wanting an accessible overview of the beginning of the
Reformation and the role of Martin Luther will find Peter
Marshall's 1517 an ideal read. [...] This is altogether an
excellent book, not only for those who wish to learn something
about the start of a movement, but also how today we try to come to
an understanding of what history was, is, and can be.
*Peter Costello, Irish Catholic*
Admirable work of detection, demythologisation, and
historiography.
*John Arnold, Church Times*
A story worth telling... a beautiful example of what popular
cultural history can be... Writers of future anniversary histories
should take note.
*Dmitri Levitin, Literary Review*
Interesting reading for both scholars of the Reformation and
history buffs in general. Marshall finds a unique niche in a year
replete with wider biographies of Luther and histories of the early
Reformation.
*Kirkus*
1517 is a remarkable exploration of the Reformation's most famous
scene, Martin Luther's posting of the Theses on the Wittenberg
church door. By unpacking the memory and meaning of this episode as
it has been interpreted and reinterpreted across five centuries of
European history, Peter Marshall reveals how the contingencies of
time and place have shaped our understanding of the Reformation and
how the Reformation, in turn, has maintained its place in the
historical imagination as a turning point on the path to the
present. Packed with detail, stories, facts, and arguments, and
beautifully written, this will surely prove to be one of the most
original of the books written to mark the Reformation
quincentenary.
*C. Scott Dixon, author of The Church in the Early Modern Age*
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