Euan Cameron, The European Reformation (Oxford, 1991).
Robert Bireley, The Refashioning of Catholicism, 1450-1700 (Washington, D.C., 1999).
Course reader for History 110.
Bible (any of the major English translations is acceptable: King James, RSV, NRSV, etc.).

The weekly reading schedule is as follows. All readings are in the course reader or in one of the assigned texts. There is a copy of the course reader on reserve in Meyer Library.

Week of Monday, Jan. 8: Western Christianity on the Eve of the Reformation

NOTE: three lectures (T-W-Th), no discussion sections this first week.

• Cameron, European Reformation, 1-93.
  
• Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ [c.1420], trans. Leo Sherley-Price (Harmondsworth, 1952), 27-59.
  
• "Savonarola on the Renovation of the Church, 1495," in John C. Olin, ed., Savonarola to Ignatius Loyola. Reform in the Church 1495-1540 (New York, 1969), 1-15.
  
• Gerald Strauss, ed., Manifestations of Discontent in Germany on the Eve of the Reformation (Bloomington, Ind., 1985), 35-63.
  

Week of Jan. 15: Humanism and Luther

No class on Mon., Jan. 15 (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day)

• Cameron, European Reformation, 99-202, 210-72.
• Erasmus, The Enchiridion of Erasmus [1503], trans. Raymond Himelick (Bloomington, Ind., 1963), 37-71.
  
• Hans C. Hillerbrand, ed., The Reformation. A Narrative History Related by Contemporary Observers and Participants (New York and Evanston, 1964), 37-43.
  
• Martin Luther, "The Freedom of a Christian" [1520], in Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings, ed. Timothy F. Lull (Minneapolis, 1989), 585-629.
  

Week of Jan. 22: The Peasants' War, Anabaptism, and the Spread of Early Protestantism

Writing assignment #1 distributed at the end of class, Wed., Jan. 24

• Cameron, European Reformation, 202-9, 267-91, 319-38.
  
• Thomas Müntzer, "Sermon to the Princes" [1524], in The Radical Reformation, ed. Michael G. Baylor (Cambridge, 1991), 11-32.
  
• Conrad Grebel, "Letter to Thomas Müntzer" [1524], in Baylor, ed., Radical Reformation, 36-48.
  
• [Sebastian Lötzer], "The Twelve Articles of the Upper Swabian Peasants" [1525], in Baylor, ed., Radical Reformation, 231-8.
  
• Michael Sattler, "The Schleitheim Articles" [1527], in Baylor, ed., Radical Reformation, 172-80.
  

Week of Jan. 29: Catholic Response, Calvin, and the Anabaptist Kingdom of Münster

Writing assignment #1 due at the beginning of class, Mon., Jan. 29

• John Eck, Enchiridion of Commonplaces Against Luther and Other Enemies of the Church [1525], (Grand Rapids, Mich., 1979), 2-17.
  
• "Sir Thomas More: On Heresy and Reform" [1529], in Humanism, Reform and Reformation, ed. Arthur J. Slavin (New York, 1969), 84-93.
  
• John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion [1536], vol. 1, ed. and trans. Ford Lewis Battles, vol. 20 of The Library of Christian Classics (Philadelphia, 1960), 197-228.
  
• documents pertaining to the Anabaptist Kingdom of Münster, in The Reformation, ed. Hillerbrand, 253-66.
  

Week of Feb. 5: Embattled Protestantism and Catholic Reform

Review for mid-term exam on Wed., Feb. 7.

• Cameron, European Reformation, 267-91, 339-68.
  
• Bireley, Refashioning of Catholicism, 1-44.
  
• John Calvin and Jacopo Sadoleto, A Reformation Debate [1539], ed. John C. Olin (Grand Rapids, Mich., 1976), 7-94.
  
• "The Concilium de emendenda ecclesia" [1537], in Catholic Reformation, ed. Olin, 182-97.
  
• "St. Ignatius Loyola and the Founding of the Jesuits" [1540], in Catholic Reformation, ed. Olin, 198-211.
  

Week of Feb. 12: The Exportation of Calvinism, and Dutch Mennonites

Mid-term exam on Mon., Feb. 12.

• Cameron, European Reformation, 372-81.
  
• Calvinism in Europe, 1540-1610: A Collection of Documents, ed. and trans. Alastair Duke et al. (Manchester and New York, 1992), 66-70, 81-8, 133-43.
  
• "The French Confession of Faith, 1559," in Reformed Confessions of the Sixteenth Century, ed. Arthur C. Cochrane (Philadelphia, 1966), 137-58.
  
• Menno Simons, The New Birth [1537, 1552], in The Complete Writings of Menno Simons (Scottdale, Pa., 1956), 87-102.
  

Week of Feb. 19: Tridentine Reforms: Programs and Activity

No class on Monday, Feb. 19 (Presidents' Day).

• Bireley, Refashioning of Catholicism, 45-69, 96-146.
  
• Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent [1542-63], ed. H. J. Schroeder (St. Louis and London, 1941), 1-20, 164-6, 192-6, 214-9.
  
• Teresa of Avila, The Way of Perfection [1566], in The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila, vol. 2 (Washington, D.C., 1980), 37-61.
  

Week of Feb. 26: Religion and Politics in the Later Sixteenth Century

Writing assignment #2 distributed at end of class, Wed., Feb. 28.

• Cameron, European Reformation, 369-88 (372-81 repeated from week 6).
  
• Bireley, Refashioning of Catholicism, 70-95.
  
• "The Heidelberg Catechism, 1563," in Reformed Confessions of the Sixteenth Century, ed. Franklin, 305-31.
  
• Catechism of the Council of Trent [1566], trans. John A. McHugh and Charles J. Callan (New York and London, 1934), iii-x, 1-30.
  

Week of March 5: Conflicts and Resolutions in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century

Writing assignment #2 due at the beginning of class, Mon., Mar. 5.

• John Norden, A Progress of Piety . . . [1596] (Cambridge, 1857), 9-31, 47-76.
  
• Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life [1609], trans. and ed. John K. Ryan (Garden City, N.Y., 1950), 35-75.
  
• Thieleman J. van Braght, The Bloody Theater or Martyrs' Mirror of the Defenseless Christians [1660], trans. Joseph F. Sohm (Scottdale, Pa., 1990), 6-15.
  

Week of March 12: Ramifications of and Reflections on Religious Change

Review for the final exam, Wed., Mar. 14; no discussion section this week.

• Cameron, European Reformation, 293-313, 389-422.
  
• Bireley, Refashioning of Catholicism, 201-11.