SCHEDULE
OF LECTURES AND READING ASSIGNMENTS .
WK
I CHRISTIANITY BEFORE THE
REFORMATION
Hillerbrand, Frederick the Wise relic collection, pp. 22-24
M 1/4
Introduction: Late Medieval
Religious Thought: Theories of Salvation
W
1/6 Late Medieval Religious Practice:
Liturgy, Saints, Penitential System
F 1/8 Ecclesiastical Politics: Avignon, Conciliarism & John Hus
WK
II FROM RENAISSANCE TO
REFORMATION
READING: Ozment, Ch 5, pp. 182-222; Start on Erasmus Discourse on Free Will
*
Xerox Packet Debate: Aeneas Silvio Piccolomini,
Italy vs Germans (Mair & Wimpheling)
from Strauss, Manifestations of Discontent in Germany on
Eve of Reformation, pp. 35-48
Hillerbrand,
Grievances of the German Nation Against Rome, pp. 3-13
M 1/11 Renaissance Papacy to 1512
Lateran Council
W 1/13 Germany Before the
Reformation: Politics & Society
The
"Universal Monarchy" of Charles V Hapsburg
DISCUSSION: Grievances of German Nation Against Rome, Xerox Packet and Hillerbrand
Fr 1/15 Humanism and Printing:
Sources of the Reformation
Erasmus: the Career of a
Christian Humanist
DISCUSSION: The
Colloquies: critique of Church
practices
WK III
ERASMUS AND HUMANISM
READING: Erasmus, Selections in Xerox Packet: Colloquies: Shipwreck, Pilgrimage for Religion’s
Sake
Erasmus, Discourse on Free Will , pp. 3-68; Ozment,
Ch 6, pp. 223-239
M 1/18 HOLIDAY: Martin Luther King Day
W 1/20 Erasmus on Free Will, Morality and Salvation:
defense of Catholic position
DISCUSSION:
Erasmus, Discourse on Free Will:
humanist and Catholic elements
F 10/22 Why did the
Reformation happen in Germany?
Weekend: read Luther assignments: very important for the course
WK
IV LUTHER & THE EARLY REFORM MOVEMENT
READING: Ozment,
Ch 7, pp. 245-260; Hillerbrand,
pp. 14-21 and 25-27 Indulgence Controversy
* Xerox
Packet: 95 Theses on Indulgences,
Disputation Against Scholastic Theology
Hillerbrand, Luther, Freedom of a Christian, pp. 28-58, Invocavit Sermons, pp. 59-65
Erasmus-Luther, Discourse on Free Will pp, 68-120
M 1/25
Luther's Theological
Development & the Indulgence Controversy
DISCUSSION: Hillerbrand, Instructions, John Tetzel, pp. 14-21,
Luther pp. 25-27
* Xerox
Packet: 95
Theses, Disputation against Scholastic Theology)
W 1/27 Luther’s
Theology: Central Concepts
DISCUSSION: Freedom
of a Christian
F
1/29 The Wittenberg
Movement, 1521-22: Luther versus Karlstadt, Zwickau
prophets
Luther versus
Erasmus: DISCUSSION: Luther-Erasmus Debate on Free Will
READ: Luther's Invocavit Sermons, Hillerbrand,
pp. 59-65
*
Xerox Theses for the Heidelberg Disputation
Wk V EARLY DIVISIONS IN REFORMATION: KARLSTADT, ZWINGLI, ANABAPTISTS
Reading is listed under each day for Week V
FIRST
PAPERS DUE WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 3
M 2/1
Zwingli in Zurich and the Sacramentarian Controversy
with Luther
READ: on Zwingli and radicals: Ozment, Ch 9, pp.318-339
*
Xerox Marburg Colloquy and Gospel of
St. John, Chapter 6
W 2/3 The
Origins of Anabaptism: Church vs sect
READ:
Hillerbrand, Selections on Anabaptists, pp. 164-202;
DISCUSSION: Anabaptists: The Schleitheim Confession of Faith
F 1/5 The Radical Reformation: Anabaptists, Kingdom of Munster and
Mennonites
Ozment Ch 10, pp. 340-351, * Xerox Hsia, Anabaptists & Munster
WK
VI POLITICS, SOCIETY AND THE REFORMATION
READING: Ozment, Ch 7, pp. 260-289; Hillerbrand. pp. 73-122
* Xerox Packet: Documents on Thomas Müntzer and
on German Peasants' War
Mon 2/8 The German Peasants' War of 1525
Thomas Müntzer and
the League of the Elect: READ Müntzer selections in Xerox
W 2/10 DISCUSSION:
12 Articles of Swabian
Peasantry in Hillerbrand
DISCUSSION: Luther's response to Peasant
War in Xerox Packet
F
2/12 MIDTERM EXAM IN CLASS
WK
VII CALVIN AS THEOLOGIAN AND REFORMER
* Xerox Robert Kingdon, "Was the Protestant Reformation a
Revolution? The Case
of
M
2/15
HOLIDAY NO CLASS PRESIDENTS’ DAY
W 2/17
Calvin from France to Geneva
DISCUSSION on
Calvin: Ozment: Were
Calvinists Really Protestants? pp. 372-380
Hillerbrand:
selections from Ecclesiastical Ordinances and Institutes of Christian Religion
F
1/19 The
Toleration Debate Begins: Servetus and Castellio; Reformation as revolution?
DISCUSSION: * Xerox Kingdon:
"Was the Protestant Reformation a Revolution?"
WK VIII SOCIAL
IMPLICATIONS OF THE REFORMATION
* Xerox
N.Z. Davis, "City Women/Religious Change," Ch 3 of Society & Culture in EM France
* Xerox: David Sabean, "Communion and
Community," Ch 1 of Power in the Blood
M 2/22 Art and the
Reformation: Iconoclasm and Propaganda
DISCUSSION: Hillerbrand: Luther, On the Jews and their Lies,
pp.
137-149
W
2/24 After Celibacy: Marriage, Women,
Family in Reformation
DISCUSSION: *Xerox: NZ
Davis on women; Jeanne de Jussie;
Hsia on Munster
F 2/26 Poor
Relief: Catholics vs Protestants
Enforcement of Orthodoxy: DISCUSSION: David Sabean, “Communion & Community”
WK IX :
READING: David Newcombe, Henry VIII and the English Reformation;
Ozment,
Ch. 14 John Knox in Scotland; Hillerbrand, 277-299’
* Schroeder, Canons & Decrees of Trent, on Mass, Justification,
Purgatory etc
pp. 29-49, 144-153, 214-217,
253-254 (270.6/T72c)
M
2/29 The Reformation in
England: Henry VIII, his wives and Parliament
W 3/2 Church and State in England and
Scotland
DISCUSSION: John Knox in Scotland (Ozment Ch. 14)
F 3/4 Roman Inquisition, Council of Trent
& Counter Reformation
DISCUSSION: Trent, Decrees
on Doctrine and Practice (Xerox Packet)
WK
X CATHOLICISM: REFORM and COUNTER-REFORMATION
READING: Ozment, Ch 13, pp. 397-418, Ch. 14, 419-433 Philip Mornay, in Hillerbrand, pp. 255-274
John Olin (ed) Autobiography of Ignatius Loyola,
Rules for Thinking with Church pp.
1-109
* Xerox Packet:
Bruce Lincoln, "St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre"
Gerald
Strauss, "Success & Failure in German Reform," Past &
Present (1975) #67, pp.30-63.
M 3/7 Ignatius Loyola and the Society of Jesus
(Jesuits)
DISCUSSION:
Autobiography of Ignatius Loyola: pages given
above
W 3/9
French Religious Wars and Huguenot Theories of Resistance to
Tyranny
DISCUSSION:
* Xerox Packet Bruce Lincoln, “St. Bartholomew’s Day
Massacre”
Hillerbrand, Mornay’s Defense of Liberty against Tyrants
F 3/11 Calvinism & Capitalism: Max Weber’s Protestant
Ethic & the Spirit of Capitalism
Limits
of Reformation: Popular Culture & Scientific Revolution
DISCUSSION: * Gerald Strauss, "Success & Failure
in German Reformation,"
EXAM:
WEDNESDAY MARCH 16, 2:30-4:30 PM in regular classroom