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The term “Reformation” refers both to a process and to a complex of religious and political events in Europe between about 1500 and 1650. This rapid and cataclysmic breakdown in the religious and political consensus that had held for hundreds of years laid the foundation for later configurations of religious and secular politics. The Reformation also altered the development of two earlier intellectual movements, scholasticism and humanism, absorbing and transforming both. The crisis of authority caused by the Reformation also contributed to fundamental shifts in early modern epistemology and political theory.
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McDonald, G. (2020). Reformation. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_1042-1
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