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~24% through The Reformation — Durant keeps dismantling the myth that history begins with the famous names. John Huss alone is a reminder that Luther was not the first man willing to die for reformist convictions. A recurring lesson for me: “hidden history” often isn’t hidden at all—it’s simply part of the vast terrain most of us never had time to explore. Also struck by Durant’s brutal clarity: “From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.” This book is widening the prelude far beyond Luther and making the Reformation feel less like an event than an eruption long in the making.