Martin Luther
Format Paperback | 592 pages
Dimensions 129 x 198 x 43mm | 368g
Publication date 15 Jun 2017
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Imprint VINTAGE
Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
Language English
ISBN10 1784703443
ISBN13 9781784703448
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2017. SHORTLISTED FOR THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE 2017. WINNER OF THE GERDA HENKEL FOUNDATION PRIZE 2016. A New Statesman, Spectator, History Today, Guardian and Sunday Times Book of the Year. When Martin Luther nailed a sheet of paper to the church door of a small university town on 31 October 1517, he set off a process that changed the Western world for ever. Within a few years Luther's ideas had spread like wildfire. His attempts to reform Christianity by returning it to its biblical roots split the Western Church, divided Europe and polarised people's beliefs, leading to religious persecution, social unrest and war; and in the long run his ideas would help break the grip of religion on every sphere of life.Yet Luther was a deeply flawed human being: a fervent believer tormented by spiritual doubts; a prolific writer whose translation of the Bible would shape the German language yet whose attacks on his opponents were vicious and foul-mouthed; a married ex-monk who liberated human sexuality from the stigma of sin but who insisted that women should know their place; a religious fundamentalist, Jew-hater and political reactionary who called 'for the private and public murder of the peasants' who had risen against their lords in response to his teaching. And perhaps surprisingly, the man who helped create in the modern world was not modern himself: for him the devil was not a figure of speech but a real, physical presence. As an acclaimed historian, Lyndal Roper explains how Luther's impact can only be understood against the background of the times. As a brilliant biographer, she gives us the flesh-and-blood figure. She reveals the often contradictory psychological forces that drove Luther forward and the dynamics they unleashed, which turned a small act of protest into a battle against the power of the Church.
這本書的裝幀設計真是一絕,封麵那種略帶斑駁的質感,仿佛能觸摸到曆史的塵埃。內頁的紙張選擇也相當考究,閱讀起來非常舒適,即便是長時間沉浸其中,眼睛也不會感到疲勞。我尤其欣賞它在排版上的用心,字體大小和行間距的比例拿捏得恰到好處,使得文字的流動感非常自然流暢。每一次翻頁,都像是在進行一場儀式感的探索。雖然我還沒完全深入到內容本身,但僅僅是捧著它,感受著它的重量和氣息,就能體會到齣版方對這位傳奇人物的敬意。那些細微的裝飾性圖案,點綴在章節的起首或結尾,像是無聲的旁注,引導著讀者的思緒緩緩進入更深沉的境界。對於注重閱讀體驗的人來說,這本實體書本身就是一件藝術品,它的存在,就足以讓人對接下來的精神之旅充滿期待。
評分初翻這本書,我立刻被其敘事的節奏感所吸引。作者的筆觸非常老練,他似乎深諳如何在一個宏大的曆史敘事中,巧妙地編織進那些鮮活的、充滿人性的細節。我注意到,他對特定場景的描繪極為細膩,比如那些關鍵演講前夜的緊張氛圍,那種混閤著信念與不安的復雜心緒,被刻畫得入木三分。閱讀過程中,我好幾次停下來,不是因為不理解,而是因為那種強烈的代入感讓我忍不住想要深呼吸,仿佛自己也置身於那個風雲變幻的年代。這種高超的敘事技巧,使得原本可能顯得枯燥的曆史陳述,煥發齣瞭一種令人屏息的戲劇張力。它不是簡單地羅列事實,而是通過有力的情節推動,將人物的內心掙紮和外部環境的巨大壓力交織在一起,讓讀者得以窺見其偉大背後的凡人特質。
評分讀這本書的過程,更像是一場與作者進行的深度對話。他的語言風格中有一種獨特的、近乎哲學的沉靜力量。即便是在描述最為激烈的衝突或最鼓舞人心的演講時,文字本身也保持著一種剋製的、不煽情的姿態,但這恰恰賦予瞭內容更加持久的迴響。我發現自己常常需要在讀完一頁後,抬起頭望嚮窗外,讓那些文字在腦海中慢慢沉澱。這種需要“消化”的閱讀體驗,在如今快節奏的閱讀風潮中顯得尤為珍貴。它要求讀者慢下來,去品味詞語的選擇、句子的節奏,以及隱藏在平實敘述之下的宏大主題。這本厚重的著作,無疑是一次對精神耐力的考驗,但最終的迴報,是遠超預期的思想豐盈感。
評分這本書的深度和廣度都超齣瞭我的初步預期。它不僅僅聚焦於那些廣為人知的公開活動和裏程碑式的事件,更深入地挖掘瞭其思想形成過程中的那些“幕後”的、更具內省性的時刻。我發現,作者似乎花瞭大量的篇幅去梳理其早期教育、哲學熏陶以及與其他思想傢的交流互動,這些看似“次要”的鋪墊,實際上為理解其後期行動邏輯奠定瞭堅實的基礎。這種紮實的研究基礎,使得全書的論述充滿瞭說服力。它像是一部精密的工程圖紙,不僅展示瞭最終宏偉的建築,更細緻地描繪瞭每一根梁柱是如何被設計和支撐起來的。這對於那些渴望從根本上理解驅動力的人來說,無疑是一份寶貴的資源。
評分我對作者處理復雜道德睏境的方式印象尤為深刻。在探討一些敏感的曆史議題時,這本書展現齣一種罕見的平衡感。它既沒有對人物進行不切實際的理想化美化,也沒有落入過度批判的窠臼。相反,它提供瞭一個多維度的視角,讓我們得以審視這位影響深遠的人物在麵對巨大社會阻力時,其思想是如何一步步演化和成熟的。這種處理方式,要求讀者投入更多的思考,去權衡不同選擇背後的代價與收益。書中的論證結構嚴密,邏輯鏈條清晰可見,即使是對相關曆史背景瞭解不深的讀者,也能循著作者的引導,逐步構建起對事件全貌的理解。它鼓勵的不是盲從,而是帶著批判性思維的深入探究。
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