History 320 Home, Schedule of Readings

Today, I will go over the syllabus and assign to each student a chapter / article analysis. Then I will go over MacCulloch's Introduction and the first half of Chapter 1. To provide background for the Reformation, I will discuss the following topics:

  • salvation
  • the sacraments
  • the "sophisticated geography of the afterlife" (11)
  • the piety of the late medieval Europeans
  • monks and clergy

  • Thorman Burgkmair, Mass of St. Gregory (1496)
  • Albrecht Dürer, Mass of St. Gregory (1511).