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History 403 (03-2): Schedule of Weekly Readings and Assignments

Titles marked with an asterisk (*) are on reserve in the library.

8 May:
(1) Lindberg, European Reformations, 1-22.
(2) *Mark Greengrass, The Longman Companion to the European Reformation, (London: Longman, 1998), 1-23 (sections, 1.1.1 to 1.7.1).

15 May:
(1) Lindberg, European Reformations, 23-90.
(2) *Jeffrey Chipps Smith, German Sculpture of the Later Renaissance, c. 1520-1580: Art in an Age of Uncertainty (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994), 10-30.
(3) *Virginia Reinburg, "Liturgy and the Laity in Late Medieval and Reformation France," Sixteenth Century Journal 23 (1992): 526-47.
Consecration of the Host, Tridentine Rite of the Roman Mass (June or July 2003).

22 May:
(1) Lindberg, European Reformations, 91-197.
(2) Lee Palmer Wandel, "Envisioning God: Image and Liturgy in Reformation Zurich," Sixteenth Century Journal 24 (1993): 21-40.
(3) *Mark Greengrass, The Longman Companion to the European Reformation, 252-57 (section 9.5).

  • Glossary of Medieval Art and Architecture
  • Monstrance, monstrances for sale, a fourteenth-century ciborium, modern ciboria, chalices, the chalice: a history.

    29 May:
    (1) Lindberg, European Reformations, 199-308.
    (2) R. W. Scribner, "Incombustible Luther: The Image of the Reformer in Early Modern Germany," Past and Present 110 (1986): 38-68.

    5 June:
    (1) Lindberg, European Reformations, 309-80.
    (2) Scott Hendrix, "Rerooting the Faith: The Reformation as Re-Christianization," Church History 69 (2000): 558-77.
    NB If the link to the article by Hendrix has expired, either (1) read the article in the bound journal in the library or (2) visit SFU's on-line catalogue, do a journal title church for Church History, click on the Electronic Resource link, click on the Connect to link, click on the Academic Search link, click on 2000 and then on Issue 3, find the link to the article.
    (3) Jeffrey Chipps Smith, "The Jesuit Church of St. Michael's in Munich: The Story of an Angel with a Mission," in *Infinite Boundaries: Order, Disorder, and Reorder in Early Modern German Culture, ed. Max Reinhart (Kirksville, MO: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, 1998), 147-69.

  • St. Michael's Church, Munich; a larger photo of the church's facade; Hubert Gerhard, St. Michael Vanquishing Lucifer.

    12 June: MIDTERM TEST.

    19 June:
    (1) Wandel, Voracious Idols and Violent Hands, 26-51.
    (2) A Reformation Debate, 21-125.

  • Position paper (one page, typed). Answer this question: What are the conflicting principles that lie at the root of the dispute between Catholics and Protestants about the legitimacy of religious images?
    Your answer should take into consideration the arguments that each side advances in order to support its position. Consult both Wandel and A Reformation Debate.
    At the end of your answer, formulate one question for discussion. This question should be able to generate a wide-ranging discussion of the assigned reading. It should not be the sort of question that can be answered in only one sentence or that requires information outside the assigned reading.
    I will accept papers only if they are typed and are submitted at the beginning of class. Produce two copies: one for you and one for me. The paper should indicate a firm grasp of the assigned reading and serve as a basis for your participation in the seminar.
  • OPTION C: PROSPECTUS DUE.

    26 June:
    (1) Scribner, For the Sake of Simple Folk, xiii-xxix, 1-94.
    (2) *Philip M. Soergel, "The Image of Saints in the Bavarian Counter Reformation," Historian 53 (1991): 223-40.

  • Position paper (one page, typed). Answer this question: Were Protestant and Catholic propaganda essentially similar or dissimilar? Consider media, intended audience, goals.
    Your answer should take into account information from both assigned readings.
    At the end of your answer, formulate one question for discussion. This question should be able to generate a wide-ranging discussion of the assigned reading. It should not be the sort of question that can be answered in only one sentence or that requires information outside the assigned reading.
    I will accept papers only if they are typed and are submitted at the beginning of class. Produce two copies: one for you and one for me. The paper should indicate a firm grasp of the assigned reading and serve as a basis for your participation in the seminar.

    3 July: Scribner,
    (1) For the Sake of Simple Folk, 95-189.
    (2) bibliographical assignment: see p. 5 of the syllabus for details. Databases to consult: Historical Abstracts, HSSI, Iter.

  • Instead of a position paper, develop one or two questions that will elicit a wide-ranging discussion of important themes in the reading. Think in terms of essay questions. Type up your questions and hand them in to me at the beginning of class.
    OPTION B: PROPOSAL FOR PAPER DUE.

    10 July: (1) Scribner, For the Sake of Simple Folk, 190-261.
    (2) one book review of For the Sake of Simple Folk.
    OPTION A: FIRST PAPER DUE.

  • Position paper (one page, typed): Write an evaluation of Scribner's book in light of one book review from a scholarly journal. Consider the three questions for this assignment listed on p. 6 of the syllabus but concentrate on the third question. Use at least two specific references to For the Sake of Simple Folk to justify your evaluation.
    I will accept papers only if they are typed and are submitted at the beginning of class. Produce two copies: one for you and one for me. The paper should indicate a firm grasp of the assigned reading and serve as a basis for your participation in the seminar.

    17 July:
    (1) Wandel, Voracious Idols and Violent Hands, 1-25, 53-148.
    (2) Christopher S. Wood, "In Defense of Images: Two Local Rejoinders to the Zwinglian Iconoclasm," Sixteenth Century Journal 19 (1988): 25-44

  • Position paper (one page, typed). Answer this question: How did the "theologies of ordinary people" (Wandel, 23) in Zurich and Strasbourg conflict with the theologies of the two priests from Biberach?
    Your answer should take into account information from both assigned readings.
    At the end of your answer, formulate one question for discussion. This question should be able to generate a wide-ranging discussion of the assigned reading. It should not be the sort of question that can be answered in only one sentence or that requires information outside the assigned reading.
    I will accept papers only if they are typed and are submitted at the beginning of class. Produce two copies: one for you and one for me. The paper should indicate a firm grasp of the assigned reading and serve as a basis for your participation in the seminar.

    24 July:
    (1) Wandel, Voracious Idols and Violent Hands, 149-98
    (2) *J. Travis Moger, "Pamphlets, Preaching and Politics: The Image Controversy in Reformation Wittenberg, Zurich and Strassburg," Mennonite Quarterly Review 75 (2001): 325-53.
    (3) one book review of Voracious Idols and Violent Hands.

  • Iconoclasm in Newfoundland?

    31 July: Final papers due.

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