1517: the "year of Miracles" from a Global Perspective
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This book not only focuses on Martin Luther, who launched the Reformation by posting the Ninety-Five Theses in Wittenberg in 1517, but also attempts to present what the world looked like at this time: What happened in and around 1517? Schilling, a professor at Humboldt University and an expert on early European history, shuttles between the secular and the religious, the economic and the military, the social and the psychological, the ideological and the material, leading us into the world we lived in in 1517 - from the German, French, Spanish and Italian Continent, the unfamiliar Moscow, the rising Ottoman Empire, to the Ming Dynasty China and the Aztec Empire in Central America. We can experience the power structure and living conditions of this era, the flow of goods and wealth, the dynamics of ideas and new inventions, as well as the mentality and cognition of all social strata. This book has fluent language and vivid narrative, restoring to readers a world at the dawn of change.
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