California State University, Fresno

Department of History

Spring 2006

 

HIST 126: The Age of Reformations

Revised Schedule

as of Monday, March 27th

 

                       

                            Part II: The Convergence of Politics and Religion                                                                                     

 

 Monday, March 27

 Term Examination 1

 For the review sheet, click here.

 Wednesday, March 29 

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

         For the PDF version of the lecture notes, click here.

·        Read: Unam Sanctam

·        Read: Melanchton's Augsburg Confession

·        Read: The Confutatio Pontifica

 Friday, March 31  

 No class - Cesar Chavez Day

 Monday, April 3

Lecture: Late Medieval Background, II: From Feudalism to Consolidation

 Wednesday, April 5

 Continuation: Feudalism to Consolidation

 Friday, April 7

 Lecture: Late Medieval Background, III: Major Players

 Monday, April 10

 No class - Spring Recess

 Wednesday, April 12

 No class - Spring Recess

 Friday, April 14

 No class - Spring Recess

Monday, April 17

 No class meeting - do note that you are required to read the material below.

 

 Lecture Notes: The Italian Wars    

·        Read: The Italian Wars on-line lecture notes

 

 Textbook Material: Habsburg-Valois Wars and the French Wars of Religion

·        Read: Jensen, 82-88, 229-257, 451-476

 Wednesday, April 19

 Lecture: Highlights of the French Wars of Religion & the Thirty Years War

 Friday, April 21

 Continuation: The French Wars of Religion & the Thirty Years War

      (Class meeting at the regular time)

 

 Required Extracurricular Meeting: Movie Screening of "Queen Margot"

 at 6:30 p.m.  If you cannot make it to the screening, you must rent and watch the

 movie on your own.

·        Hand-out: List of Character and short introduction

·        Guide questions

 Monday, April 24

 Essay 3 Due

 Discussion: "Queen Margot"

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                         Part III: A new Community and a new Worldview

 

 Wednesday, April 26

Lecture: The Conditions of Social Unrest, I: Social Crisis and The Peasants' War 

 Friday, April 28

 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"

 Monday, May 1

 Lecture: Women and the Reformation (PowerPoint presentation: for the slides, click here.)

 Wednesday, May 3

 Continuation: Women and the Reformation

 Friday, May 5

 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"

 For the guide questions, click here.

 Monday, May 8

 Lecture: Post-Reformation Culture

 Wednesday, May 10

 Epilogue: The Legacy of the Age of Reformation

 

Final Examination: Wednesday, May 17 @ 11:00 a.m – 1:00 p.m.

For the review sheet, click here.

For the written summary lecture on the age of religious wars, click here.