ABSTRACT
https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315018577/389c1d69-bf6d-4f43-8610-58d40a6d0a1a/content/Inline_1_B.tif" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/> Concurrent with the new sense of nationalism which marked the sixteenth century was a conflict within the church which led to the decentralization of Christendom, and which had a profound effect on the writing of history. The movement which we know as the Reformation found history necessary to the establishment of the positions toward which it was moving. Any argument concerning either theology or church government had, of necessity, to invoke history, and gradually both secular and ecclesiastical history became important to the theses of the Reformers. History, indeed, became one of their major concerns.
