Week 3: The Reformation and its Impacts

Main Point:

Pre-reformation: religion = body of believers managed in theory by the Church, but the state competed with the churhc on these powers.
Post-reformation: religion managed by the state which was much more focused on the beliefs of those believers.
Reformation gave much more power over the lives of the believers to the state.
Led to restriction in belief practices and a greater emphasis on orthodoxy belief practices.
What started as liberalization of individual beliefs, became a much tighter restriction on both those beliefs and behaviors of the populace.

Read:

Merry Wiesner-Hanks, “Europe: Reforms and Reformations in Christianity,” in Religious Transformations in the Early Modern World: A Brief History with Documents (New York: Bedford/St. Martins, 2009), 48-55 (on Zotero)

Read:

Carter Lindberg, “Legacies of the Reformation” in The European Reformation (Blackwell, 1997), 357–371 (There is more past 371, no need to read it. Stop at “Economics, Education, and Science”)

Student Presentation by Allie Black and Sophia Pearson

Sources:

Desiderius Ersamus, “The Praise of Folly,” in Religious Transformations in the Early Modern World: A Brief History with Documents, ed. Merry Wiesner-Hanks (New York: Bedford/St. Martins, 2009), 56–58 (on Zotero)
Martin Luther, “The Freedom of a Christian, 1520,” in Religious Transformations in the Early Modern World: A Brief History with Documents, ed. Merry Wiesner-Hanks (New York: Bedford/St. Martins, 2009), 58–61. (on Zotero)
Jean Calvin, “The Church,” in John Calvin: Selections from His Writings (New York: Harper Collins, 2006), 52–56. (On Zotero).
Charlotte d’Arbaleste, “Escape from the Massacre, 1572” in The Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre: A Brief History with Documents, ed. Barbara Diefendorf (New York: Bedford/St. Martins, 2009), 108–111. (on Zotero)
Tryntje Helfferich, ed., “Hans Heberle’s Zeytregister,” in The Essential Thirty Years War (Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2015), 141–65. (on Zotero)