History 320

The European Reformation

Week Monday Wednesday

3: 20 / 22 Jan

StephenMegan

AdamJill

4: 27 / 29 Jan

LindaNgaio

DavidTrevor

5: 3 / 5 Feb DianaCellene

GenevieveTravis

6: 17 / 19 Feb

ConnorStephanie

King YanJulia

7: 24 / 26 Feb

Adrienne ChristinaElissa

500-word essay

Questions for Discussion

1. What is your historical question that helps us think about Chapter 2?

2. What was the most important thing you learned in this chapter? Did it confirm your earlier assumptions, or did it make you think differently about the background to the Reformation?

Historical Questions

1. In what ways did the Reconquista affect Catholic belief in Spain?

2. Should historians look beyond key people to consider the general public in the expansion of Christendom / Reformation?

3. Did a lack of major non-Christian religions allow the Reformation to flourish in Northern Europe as distinct from Spain?

Historical Questions

1. To what extent did Islamic military aggression affect the rise of Protestantism?

2. In what ways did Spain use Christianity to fulfill imperialistic desires?

3. Would the Reformation have happened without the technology of print?

Questions for Discussion Chapter 2 is entitled “Hopes and Fears,

1490-1517.” Pay attention to the concepts of hope and fear, optimism and pessimism, and related ideas as you read the chapter. Is this an appropriate title or just a catchy heading? What does MacCulloch want to tell us about the pre-Reformation world with this title?

Questions for Discussion1.What function does the opening

section, “Shifting Boundaries,” have in the context of the entire chapter?

2.What is distinctive about Spanish Catholicism?

3. What effect did paper, printing, and humanism have on the religious culture of late medieval Europe?

Some terms to know: conversos, moriscos, Cardinal Ximénes,

alumbrados, Patronato, Bartolomé de las Casas

humanism, ad fontes Vulgate Bible, Complutensian Polyglot scholasticism, Thomism Fifth Lateran Council prône, Guillaume Briçonnet Savonarola Erasmus.

Hopes and Fears, 1490-1517 SHIFTING BOUNDARIES THE IBERIAN EXCEPTION THE IBERIAN ACHIEVEMENT NEW POSSIBILITIES: PAPER AND PRINTING HUMANISM: A NEW WORLD FROM BOOKS PUTTING RENEWAL INTO PRACTICE REFORM OR THE LAST DAYS? ERASMUS: HOPES FULFILLED, FEARS STILLED

“Iberian Reformation before the Reformation” (60-61)

ethnic cleansing, Inquisition

New Christians: conversos, moriscos

Cardinal Francisco Ximénes de Cisneros (d. 1517)

Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)

Patronato

Renaissance printing Latin and vernacular books humanism: “a refocusing of

old learning” (77) patronage from the

ecclesiastical establishment ad fontes biblical scholarship

Complutensian Polyglot Greek New Testament

(1516) humanism and scholasticism

Reform Efforts

Fifth Lateran Council (1512-1517)monastic / mendicant reformEgidio da Viterbo (1469-1532)Guillaume de Briçonnet (1470-1534)Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498)

Erasmus of Rotterdam (d. 1536)biblical

scholarshipsatireReformation of

Manners

Footnotes / Bibliography: Monograph

Footnote:

1. Diarmaid MacCulloch, Reformation: Europe’s House Divided (London: Penguin, 2004), 36.

Bibliography:

MacCulloch, Diarmaid. Reformation: Europe’s House Divided. London: Penguin, 2004.

Footnotes / Bibliography: Journal Article Footnote:

2. Geoffrey Parker, “Success and Failure during the First Century of the Reformation,” Past and Present 136 (1992): 46-47.

Bibliography:

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

Bibliography: Alphabetical Order

MacCulloch, Diarmaid. Reformation: Europe’s House Divided. London: Penguin, 2004.

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

Date Students

10 March 3

12 March 2

17 March 2

19 March 2

24 March 3

26 March 2

31 March 2 (Pettegree) + 2 (article)

02 April 2

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