King Sigismund of Poland and Martin Luther: The Reformation Before Confessionalization

ISBN-13: 9780198813453 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 288 str.

Natalia Nowakowska

Opis

The Polish monarchy had a great impact on the rise of Lutheranism. King Sigismund (1506-1548) turned a blind eye to many Lutheran activities, and this study sees his tacit acceptance as an argument for the notion that he didn't see Lutheranism as a threat to the existing catholic Christianity, but as a variant form of the same faith.

Recenzje

a truly path-breaking work. It is based on a command of a large primary and secondary printed and manuscript literature. It will be a must read for specialists in the history of the early modern Commonwealth, and, most welcome - I can't stress this enough - for important, serious scholars of the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation David Frick, Sehepunkte

O autorze

Natalia Nowakowska has been a Tutor and Fellow in Early Modern History at Somerville College, University of Oxford, since 2007. She read History at Oxford as an undergraduate, and went on to hold post-doctoral positions at King's College London and University College, Oxford (and to work briefly in social policy). She is the author of a prize-winning first book on late medieval Poland, recipient of a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship, and is currently the Principal Investigator of a major five-year European-Research Council funded project entitled 'Jagiellonians: Dynasty, Memory & Identity in Central Europe'.