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Article: Europe's Reformations 1450-1650.(Review) (book review)

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Europe's Reformations 1450-1650 James D. Tracy Rowman and Littlefield 23.95 [pounds sterling] hb, 15.95 [pounds sterling] pb xvii + 387 pp. ISBN 0-8476-8834-8 hb, 0-8476-8835-6 pb

THE EUROPEAN REFORMATIONS of the sixteenth century were decisive in creating modern Western identity. They tore apart a unified Latin culture which had embraced lands stretching from Tralee to Temesvar, from Stavanger to Sicily. The Reformations turned the label 'Catholic' into a tribal term, signifying exclusive loyalty to the Bishop of Rome, when once it had meant 'universal', and they created a new word, 'Protestant', which itself embraced a multitude of tribes. Lutherans often came ...

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