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Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2010

Extract

For most scholars, the religious landscape of late medieval Central Europe is familiar terrain. Its geography was most famously mapped in the early twentieth century by the Dutch scholar Johan Huizinga. Casting this period as one of decay and decline, Huizinga shaped the historiography of the late Middle Ages for succeeding generations. The church's moral and institutional failings called forth the reforming efforts of first Jan Hus in Bohemia and then a century later Martin Luther in Germany. But as John Van Engen has recently reminded us, “any historical period called ‘late’ is headed for interpretive trouble.” During the past decade in particular, a number of scholars have reexamined this period and region with fresh eyes.

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Forum: Religion and Reform in “Late Medieval” Central Europe
Copyright
Copyright © Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota 2010

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References

1 Van Engen, John, “Multiple Options: The World of the Fifteenth Century Church,” Church History 77 (2008): 257CrossRefGoogle Scholar.