MO3005 The Early Reformation in Europe, 1517-1555
   
Lecturer Dr Matthew McLean  (St Katharine’s Lodge, room B7)
Professor Andrew Pettegree ( from 2012-13)
   
Credits 30
   
Availability 2012-13, Semester 1
   
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Description The course focuses on the evolution of the European Reformation through an examination of key themes relating to the connection between religion and society. The theological ideas of the Reformation did not exist in a vacuum; they were printed, preached and spread through cities, market towns and rural villages, because they touched upon the most fundamental beliefs of the people, and were perceived as relevant to the most urgent questions of the day. Outside Germany the success or failure of the evangelical movement also depended on local political, economic and social circumstances: these are explored through a series of national case studies.
   
Basic Reading Diarmaid MacCulloch, Reformation. Europe’s House Divided 1490 - 1700 (2003)
Alister McGrath, Reformation Thought (1988)
Andrew Pettegree, The Early Reformation in Europe (1992)
Andrew Pettegree (ed.), The Reformation World (2000)
   

Course Structure
  1. Organisation and Overview
  2. Heresy and Humanism: The Intellectual Heritage of the Reformation
  3. Martin Luther
  4. The Rural and Princely Reformations
  5. The Reformation in the Cities
  6. The Swiss Reformation
  7. The Radical Reformation
  8. Reformation in the Netherlands
  9. Reformation in France
  10. The English Reformation
  11. Italy, Spain and the Catholic Response
   
Assessment 100% coursework
   

Learning Outcomes

  
   
Restrictions None