California State University, Fresno

Department of History

Spring 2006

HIST 126: The Age of Reformations

Schedule

 Continuation: Medieval Christianity

·        Read: Written lecture: Late Medieval Background, II: Folk Piety & the Church at the Eve of the Reformation

 Lecture: Late Medieval Background, III: Medieval Movements of Reform

·        Read: The Rule of St. Benedict

·        Written lecture: Medieval Movements of Reform

 Continuation: Humanism

  Some notes on Christian Humanism

 Discussion: Humanism

·        Read: Petrarch's "Letter Against the Avignon Papacy"

·        Read: Erasmus's Discourse on Free Will (ErasmusFreeWill1.PDF, ErasmusFreeWill2.PDF,

               ErasmusFreeWill3.PDF, ErasmusFreeWill4.PDF)

 For the guide questions to Erasmus's Discourse, click here.

 Essay 1 Due 

 Discussion: Luther's early writings

·        Read: Martin Luther: Selections from his Writings: "Bondage of the Will" (166-203); "Freedom of a Christian" (42-85); "The Ninety-five Theses" (489-503)

 For the guide questions to Luther's works, click here.

 Lecture: The Expanding Reformation: Zwingli and the Anabaptists

                Maps

 Discussion: The Radical Reformation       

·        Read:  "The Schleitheim Confession"

Continuation: Calvinism

 Online Lecture Notes

 Text material on the Expansion of Calvinism (pages 149-156 in Jensen's Reformation Europe)

 Essay 2 Due 

 Discussion: Calvin's The Institutes of the Christian Religion

·        Read: 21-35, 39-47, 69-82, 85-94, 143-57, 161-77, 181-99, 213-27, 231-50

 For the guide questions to Calvin's Institutes, click here.

 Lecture: The English Reformation

  For "England's Reformations, 1527-1660" (Chapter 11 in James D. Tracy's Europe's Reformations),

  click here: Part I, Part II

 Discussion: The English Reformation        

·        Read: Foxe's Book of Martyrs

·        Read: Account of the Suppression of GlastonburyAbbey

·        Read: Elizabeth's Act of Uniformity

 Lecture: The Catholic Reformation & The Counter-Reformation

      * Outline notes on The Catholic Reformation

      * Outline notes on The Counter-Reformation

 Discussion: St. Ignatius Loyola's Personal Writings

·        Read: 13-64, 67-99 (skim), 251-60, 356-8

 Lecture: Late Medieval Background, I: The Church, the State, and Power Politics

·        Read: Unam Sanctam

·        Read: Melanchton's Augsburg Confession

·        Read: The Confutatio Pontifica

 Term Examination 1

 For the review sheet, click here.

 Lecture: The Italian Wars     

·        Read: The Italian Wars on-line lecture notes

 Lecture: Habsburg-Valois Wars and the French Wars of Religion

·        Read: An Account of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre

 Required Extracurricular Meeting: Movie Screening of "Queen Margot"

 Hand-out: List of Character and short introduction

 Guide questions

 Essay 3 Due

 Discussion: "Queen Margot"

 Discussion: Social Visions of the Reformation

·        Read: "An Appeal to the Ruling Class" (from Martin Luther: Selections, 403-88)

·        Read: The Twelve Articles of the Swabian People

·        Read: Luther's "Against the Robbing and  Murdering Hordes of Peasants"

 Essay 4 Due

 Discussion: St. Teresa of Avila's Book of Her Life

·        Read: Avila, 64-99, 110-90

·        Read: Malleus Meleficarum,

·        Read: Jean Bodin's De la Demonomanie des Sorciers

·        Read: "The Witch Persecussions at Trier"