A Nearly Infallible History of the Reformation by Nick Page offers a humorous yet informative look at the Reformation's complexities, key figures, and its impact on history. Ideal for history enthusiasts.

Nick Page

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Introduction: The fastest-selling Playmobil® figure ever

Part One: The Road to reformation

1. The medieval mindscape

2. The escape of knowledge

3. I, Albrecht Dürer

4. The talented Mr Erasmus

Part Two: The Wittenberg Door

5. Becoming Martin Luther

6. The indulgence-selling scandal

7. Loo-ther

8. Diets and disputations

Part Three: Here Comes Mr Everybody

9. The word on the street

10. The Martinians

11. Revolting peasants

12. Relationships and other problems

Part Four: The Swiss Role

13. Zwinglin' in the rain

14. Politics and popes

15. Danish blues

16. The radical reformation

Part Five: Crash Diets

17. Protesting cities

18. Disunited we stand

Part Six: D.I.V.O.R.C.E.

19. William Tyndale

20. Horrid Henry

Part Seven: Defeats and Death

21. Jean Cauvin

22. Münster

23. Losing Luther

Part Eight: The Counter-Attack

24. The really long meeting

25. Getting all Jesuitical

26. Ending Trent

Part Nine: Welcome to Calvinagrad

27. The return to Geneva

28. Preserving purity

29. The international Brotherhood of the Elect

Part Ten: The Disunited Kingdom

30. Evangelical Eddy and scary Mary

31. Good Queen Bess

32. Our friends in the north

33. God's silly vassal

34. Our friends in the west

Part Eleven: Revolution

35. The Low Countries

36. Religious wars

Epilogue: The world on fire

The Reformation: a chronology

Index

Footnotes

_500 years ago, Martin Luther nailed his ideas to a church door - and the Reformation began. Or maybe it was a little more complicated than that._   
  
Nick Page brings his skills as an unlicensed historian to bear on this key period in European (and world) history in order to uncover everything you need to know about the Reformation - with a fair few bits you never wanted to know thrown in for good measure.  
  
Historians tell us that the Protestant Reformation laid the foundations for the Industrial Revolution, religious freedom, and all sorts of other Good Things. But what actually happened? Who were the winners and the losers, the ogres and the beauty queens of this key moment in church history? (spoiler: there weren't any beauty queens)  
  
In-depth research, historical analysis and cutting-edge guesswork combine to scintillating effect in this fast-moving examination of the strange and wonderful whirlwind that was church life in late medieval Europe.  
  
'You were predestined to read this.' John Calvin

Nick Page is the author of over sixty books, including The Bible Book, What Happened to the Ark of the Covenant and Other Bible Mysteries, The HarperCollins Atlas of Bible History (editor) and most recently, THE WRONG MESSIAH. Follow Nick Page on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/NickofEynsham and visit his website at: https://nickpage.co.uk

A Nearly Infallible History of the Reformation by Nick Page offers an engaging overview of the Reformation's key figures and events, blending research with humour for history enthusiasts.

\["Want a humorous introduction to the Reformation?","Nick Page uses his wit and unlicensed-historian-credentials to explore a remarkable period in Church history.","Perfect as a gift for anyone wanting to laugh, learn, and discover Luther's groundbreaking faith"\]

Introduction: The fastest-selling Playmobil figure ever

Part One: The Road to Reformation

1\. The medieval mindscape

2\. The escape of knowledge

3\. I, Albrecht Durer

4\. The talented Mr Erasmus

Part Two: The Wittenberg Door

5\. Becoming Martin Luther

6\. The indulgence-selling scandal

7\. Loo-ther

8\. Diets and disruptions

Part Three: Here Comes Mr Everybody

9\. The word on the street

10\. The Martinians

11 Revolting peasants

12\. Relationships and other problems

Part Four: The Swiss Role

13\. Zwinglin' in the rain

14\. Politics and popes

15\. Danish blues

16\. The radical reformation

Part Five: Crash Diets

17\. Protesting cities

18\. Disunited we stand

Part Six: D.I.V.O.R.C.E

19\. William Tyndale

20\. Horrid Henry

Part Seven: Defeats and Death

21\. Jean Cauvin

22\. Munster

23\. Losing Luther

Part Eight: The Counter-Attack

24\. The really long meeting

25\. Getting all Jesuitical

26\. Ending Trent

Part Nine: Welcome to Calvingrad

27\. The return to Geneva

28\. Preserving purity

29\. The International Brotherhood of the Elect

Part Ten: The Disunited Kingdom

30\. Evangelical Eddy and scary Mary

31\. Good Queen Bess

32\. Our friends in the north

33\. God's silly vassal

34\. Our friends in the west

Part Eleven: Revolution

35\. The Low Countries

36\. Religious wars

Epilogue: The world on fire

The Reformation: a chronology

Index

Nick Page seeks in this book to clear up some of the myths, stories and notions which grew up around the whole event... With great insight, detail and leaving no stone unturned, Page will bring a new understanding to the Reformation whether you like it or not. - Presbyterian Herald

A witty and informative book... Page also breaks down various complex and quite serious areas of the Christian faith and puts them together again in a simpler, jigsaw version of the Reformation... Page finds a balance between funny and fact, making the Reformation of the 16th century more appealing to today's modern Christian. - Idea Magazine

Would I recommend this book as a good read? YES! - Christian Librarian Magazine

Composed of a plethora of facts... His explanation of what indulgences are is particularly helpful. - The Reformation Room Blog

It's an entertaining and informative read. Don't miss is, not least for the Top Reformers cards. - Woman Alive

Page writes in a manner which shines light into the darker corners of history and with a style which keeps the reader's attention. - Methodist Recorder

Nick page is one of the most talented actors, writers and speakers I have been fortunate enough to encounter during the last thirty years. Genuinely funny in his humour, and seriously interesting in his thoughtful, well-researched teaching, Nick is brilliantly versatile. I wish I had half of his talent, but I guess he's just too mean to share it with me. - Adrian Plass

The humorous and fast-moving unlicensed historian Nick Page explores how the Reformation is more complex and strange than you could ever predict.

Prized for his skills as a writer, speaker, unlicensed historian, applied ranter and general information-monger, Nick Page has written over 70 books, including The Tabloid Bible, THE LONGEST WEEK trilogy, A NEARLY INFALLIBLE HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY, looking at the history of the Christian church down the centuries, and, most recently, THE DARK NIGHT OF THE SHED. Nick lives in Oxfordshire with his wife Claire and their three daughters.

Commemorating 500 years of Popes, Protestants, Reformers, Radicals and Other Assorted Irritants

A Nearly Infallible History of the Reformation

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