Oberman's magisterial work transfers discussion of late medieval Christian thought from the private studies of the specialist to more general use and understanding, and explains the significance of the ideas of the time. Although this 'Late Medieval Reader' does not exhaust the riches of the period between the High Middle Ages and the Reformation era, it introduces the reader to aspects of such major themes as conciliarism, curialism, mysticism, scholasticism, the spirituality of the Devotio Moderna, and the impact of Renaissance humanism. The theme of the "Forerunners" has grown out of the consideration that the justified rejection of a confessional reading of the past has been succeeded by an equally unhistorical disjunction of the Medieval and Reformation periods. Without a grasp of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the medieval basis of modern thought is incomplete, since Reformation and Counter Reformation seem to arise 'out of the blue'.

About the Author
Heiko Oberman of the Netherlands Reformed Church taught at Harvard Theological Seminary, the Institute of Reformation History at Tubingen University and at Arizona University. He is also the author of: The Dawn of the Reformation (1986) and The Impact of the Reformation (1994).


Book Information
ISBN 9780227170465
Author Heiko A. Oberman
Format Hardback
Page Count 344
Imprint James Clarke & Co Ltd
Publisher James Clarke & Co Ltd
Weight(grams) 435g