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Part 1: Survey of the History of the Reformation

Monday, 6 January Introduction, MacCulloch, Reformation, 3-52
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Wenesday, 8 January MacCulloch, Reformation, 3-52

Monday, 13 January MacCulloch, Reformation, 53-105.
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Wednesday, 15 January MacCulloch, Reformation, 106-37.

Monday, 20 January MacCulloch, Reformation, 137-79.
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Wednesday, 22 January MacCulloch, Reformation, 179-212.

Monday, 27 January

  • MacCulloch, Reformation, 213-69:
  • John W. O'Malley, "Was Ignatius Loyola a Church Reformer? How to look at Early Modern Catholicism," Catholic Historical Review 77 (1991): 177-93. Retrieve from JSTOR, not EBSCO.
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    Wednesday, 29 January MacCulloch, Reformation, 270-313.

    Monday, 3 February

  • MacCulloch, Reformation, 317-99.
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    Wednesday, 5 February MacCulloch, Reformation, 400-41.

    Monday, 17 February

  • MacCulloch, Reformation, 442-84;
  • Scott Hendrix, "Rerooting the Faith: The Reformation as Re-Christianization," Church History 69 (2000): 558-77 (EBSCO).
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    Wednesday, 19 February MacCulloch, Reformation, 485-501

    Monday, 24 Februrary

  • MacCulloch, Reformation, 502-575
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    Wednesday, 26 February MacCulloch, Reformation, 576-607.

    Monday, 3 March

  • MacCulloch, Reformation, 608-708
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    Wednesday, 5 March Quiz #4

    Part 2: Was the Reformation a Success or a Failure?

    Monday, 10 March

  • "Gerald Strauss, "Success and Failure in the German Reformation," Past and Present 67 (1975): 30-63 (JSTOR).
  • "J. M. Kittelson, "Successes and Failures in the German Reformation: The Report from Strasbourg," Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte 73 (1982): 153-75. ON RESERVE IN THE BENNETT LIBRARY.

    Wednesday, 12 March

  • "R. W. Scribner, "Why was there no Reformation in Cologne?" Historical Research 49 (1976): 217-41 (Wilely Online Library).
  • First Essay due

    Monday, 17 March

  • Pettegree, Reformation and the Culture of Persuasion, 1-75.
  • Jay Goodale, "Pastors, Privation, and the Process of Reformation in Saxony," Sixteenth Century Journal 33 (2002): 71-92 (JSTOR)
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    Wednesday, 19 March

  • R. W. Scribner, "Incombustible Luther: The Image of the Reformer in Early Modern Germany," Past and Present 110 (1986): 38-68 (JSTOR).

    Monday, 24 March

  • Pettegree, Reformation and the Culture of Persuasion, 76-155.
  • Christopher Haigh, "Success and Failure in the English Reformation," Past and Present 173 (2001): 28-49 (JSTOR).
  • Eric Josef Carlson, "Good Pastors or Careless Shepherds? Parish Ministers and the English Reformation," History 88 (2003): 423-36 (EBSCO).
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    Wednesday, 26 March

  • Henry A. Jeffries, "The Early Tudor Reformations in the Irish Pale," Journal of Ecclesiastical History 52 (2001): 34-62 (Cambridge Journals Online).

    Monday, 31 March

  • Pettegree, Reformation and the Culture of Persuasion, 156-217.
  • Mack P. Holt, "Wine, Community and Reformation in Sixteenth-Century Burgundy," Past and Present 138 (1993): 58-93 (JSTOR).
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    Wednesday, 2 April

  • Geoffrey Parker, "Success and Failure during the First Century of the Reformation," Past and Present 136 (1992): 43-82 (JSTOR).

    Monday, 7 April: Test; Consultation for essays due on 9 April.

    Wednesday, 9 April: Second Essay due by 9:30 in AQ 6018.