HSTEU402
Reformation ONLINE READINGS PACKET O’Neil
See syllabus for dates for individual
readings. Click on highlighted links.
1. Grievances
of the German Nation Against Rome:
Debate with Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini; A
German Clergyman’s Criticism of Rome, and
Statement of Grievances [Gravamina] presented to the Diet of Worms from:
Gerald Strauss
(ed), Manifestations of Discontent in Germany
Before the Reformation, pp. 35-55. [DD174/S87]
2. Erasmus
of
Colloquies of Erasmus,
(transl. Thompson), pp. 138-146 & 285-312 [PQ8508/E5T58/Vol 1]
3. Luther
selections: 95 Theses on Indulgences(1517)
Disputation
Against Scholastic Theology (1518)
4. Sacramentarian Controversy: Marburg Colloquy 1529 (Luther versus Zwingli)
Gospel of St. John, Chapter 6 (referred to by Luther and Zwingli)
5. Thomas
Müntzer: Prague Manifesto 1521; Sermon Before the Princes 1524;
Highly Provoked Defense against Luther 1524;Confession and Recantation 1525
from: Lowell Zuck (ed) Christianity & Revolution: Radical Christian Testimonies, 1520-l650, pp.29-47 [BR301/C45]
6. Documents
on German Peasants' War: Twelve
Articles of the Swabian Peasantry (full text with
scriptural citations)
Martin Luther, Against the Robbing
Murdering Hordes of Peasants &
Open Letter on the Harsh Book against the Peasantry, from
Luther's Works, American
edition [BR330/E5/Vol 46] Total of 56 vols in Suzzallo
in Hsia (ed), German
People and the Reformation, pp. 50-69. [BR309/G37/l988]
7.
Jeanne de Jussie, Calvinist Germs, pp
87-95 and Geneva Ordinances, pp. 96-103
Selections from Robert M Kingdon (ed),
Transition and Revolution: Problems in Renaissance and Reformation History
(1974) [BR309/K5]
8. Documents
from French Reformation: Edict of Paris 29 January 1534;Text of Placards of
1534:
A true account of the horrible, great,
and unbearable abuses of the Papal Mass
9. Women
and Reformation: Natalie Zemon Davis, City Women and Religious Change in her
Society and Culture in Early Modern
10.Newcombe, Henry VIII and the English Reformation
11. Popular
Culture: Gerald Strauss, Success
& Failure in the German Reformation, Past and Present, Vol. 67
(1975), pp. 30-63 [JSTOJSTOR]
12.Enforcement
of Orthodoxy: David Sabean, Communion and Community, in Sabean, Power
in the Blood, pp. 37-60 [DD901/N97]
11. St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre: Bruce Lincoln, Festivals and Massacres: Reflections on St.
Bartholomew’s Day
in his Discourse & Construction
of Society, pp. 89-102 [BL304/L56/1989]
12. Council
of Trent: Tridentine Decrees, from Schroeder, Canons & Decrees of
Council of Trent, pp. 29-49, 144-153, 214-254 [270.6/T72c]
13. Loyola, Rules for Thinking with the Church, from his Spiritual Exercizes 1541
13. Extra readings for papers on women in the Reformation:
Excerpts from Luther, Calvin and Bucer (reformer of Strasbourg) on women
Merry Wiesner, "Luther and Women: the Two Marys" from Disciplines of Faither