Week 2: Catholicism before the Reformation

Europe’s Reformations

Monday

No Class (MLK Day)

Wednesday

Secondary Source Discussion:

  • James Tracy, “Doctrine: Late Medieval Background,” in Europe’s Reformations, 1450–1650: Doctrine, Politics, and Community (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), 31-46. (on Zotero)

Friday

Primary Source Discussion

  • Desidarius Erasmus, “A Defence by Erasmus of Rotterdam Publicly Refuting the Mischievous Clamour of Certain Men among People Both Influential and Humble to Whom They Declare That It Was an Impiety on His Part to Translate in the Gospel of John,” in Collected Works of Erasmus, ed. Denis Dysdall (University of Toronto Press, 2015), 1-12.