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HOFFMAN NICKERSON The Loss of Unity
London England, Sidgewick & Jackson Ltd, 1961. First Edition, Binding: Cloth, Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Harback Hardback. Slight foxing to D/J. Very slightly sunned spine to D/J. Price clipped to D/J. The author traces the Sixteenth Century causes and events which ended by brining about the existing religious disunity in the West. He vividly depicts the social and religious conditions of the period, the effect of Columbus' discovery of the New World, the suffering caused by the continual rise in prices and the new horizons opened up by the New Learning which, together with Machiavelli's revolutionary teachings, was permeating Europe; he examines the scandal of the Papal Indulgences and shows how powerful men seized the opportunity to plunder the wealth of the Church and the monastries. Contents: Preface. Sails and the Cross. Point of Departure. More Beyond. Unemployed Diplomat. Dutch Scholar 'Lays An Egg'. Miner's Son Approaches Heresy. Charles, Luther and the Princelings. Charles, Luther and Erasmus. Charles' Aunt Versus Royal Theologian. Gothic Gaiety. Devil-Worshipping Genius. No Reconcilliation. Trent Forecloses Debate. England and the End at Trent. Armistice Line and Unhealed Wound. Bibliography. Index. 360 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.) .
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