Paula Watson-Lakamp

Voices of the Reformation

Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life

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Produktbeschreibung

This fascinating collection of primary source documents furnishes the accounts-in their own words-of those who initiated, advanced, or lived through the Reformation. Starting in 1500, Europe transformed from a united Christendom into a continent bitterly divided between Catholicism and Protestantism by the end of the century. This illuminating text reveals what happened during that period by presenting the social, religious, economic, political, and cultural life of the European Reformation of the 16th century in the words of those who lived through it. Detailed and comprehensive, the work includes 60 primary source documents that shed light on the character, personalities, and events of that time and provides context, questions, and activities for successfully incorporating these documents into academic research and reading projects. A special section provides guidelines for better evaluating and understanding primary documents. Topics include late medieval religion, Martin Luther, reformation in Germany and the Peasants' War, the rise of Calvinism, and the English Reformation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Greenwood
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 286mm x 221mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 1126g
• ISBN-13: 9781610696791
• ISBN-10: 1610696794
• Artikelnr.: 41863024

Autorenporträt

John A. Wagner, PhD, has taught classes in British and American history at Arizona State University and Phoenix College.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Evaluating and Interpreting Primary Documents
Chronology of the Protestant Reformation
Documents of the Reformation
Late Medieval Religion
1. "Men Loaded with Gold and Clad in Purple": Criticisms of the Avignon
Papacy (Mid-14th Century)
2. "Such Evidence Should Satisfy No One": English Cleric John Wycliffe on
the Eucharist and the Power of the Pope (1377, 1384)
3. "God Will Help Thy Good Intent": The Imitation of Christ, the Devotio
Moderna, and the Call for Reform (ca. 1420)
4. "Wherefore Are Some Chosen and Others Cast Out?": The Reformation
Foreshadowed in the Life and Preaching of Fra Girolamo Savonarola (1493,
1497)
5. "May I Be Lost If in All of Luther's Works There Is a Single Syllable of
Mine": Erasmus and His Circle React to Martin Luther and the Start of the
German Reformation (1518, 1521)
Reformation in Germany
6. "He Has Collected Many Heresies": The Edict of Worms (1521)
7. "On Holy Easter There Was Neither Singing Nor Preaching": An Account of
the Peasants' War (1525)
8. "It Is Consistent with Scripture That We Should Be Free": The Twelve
Articles of the Peasants (1525)
9. "One Simple Truth and Christian Concord": The Augsburg Confession (1530)
10. "Shall Let Them Quietly and Peacefully Enjoy Their Religion": The Peace
of Augsburg (1555)
Martin Luther and Lutheranism
11. "They Now Fish for the Riches of Men": Martin Luther's 95 Theses (1517)
12. "So That We May Blow Down These Walls of Straw and Paper": Luther's
Address to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation (1520)
13. "From the Word I Would Not Depart": Martin Luther's Account of His
Hearing before the Diet of Worms (1521)
14. "This Damnable and Offensive Worm": Martin Luther and the King of
England (1522, 1525)
15. "Indulging in Nothing but Robbery, Murder, and Bloodshed": Martin
Luther Reacts to the Peasants' War (1525)
Ulrich Zwingli, Anabaptism, and the Reformation in Switzerland
16. "The Decree about Cheese and Butter Is a Roman Swindle": The 67
Articles Defended by Ulrich Zwingli (1523)
17. "Baptism of Infants, the Supreme Abomination of the Roman Pontiff": The
Schleitheim Confession (1527)
18. "The Hangman Shall Dispute with You": An Account of the Trial and
Execution of Michael Sattler (1527)
19. "What Shame, Pray, Will Be Left Us?": Ulrich Zwingli's "Refutation of
the Tricks of the Baptists" (1527)
20. "He Compelled Me to Seize a Pen": Ulrich Zwingli's Letter to Joachim
Vadian Concerning the Marburg Colloquy (1529)
John Calvin and Calvinism
21. "A Question, in the Opinion of Many, Full of Perplexity": John Calvin
on the Doctrine of Predestination (1536)
22. "Taverns Shall Be Closed during the Sermon": Ordinances for the
Regulation of the Churches Dependent Upon the Seigniory of Geneva (1547)
23. "His Said Book Could Not Be Tolerated Even among Papists": The Charges
Brought against Michael Servetus (1553)
24. "He Is a Monster Not to Be Borne": John Calvin's Letters Describing the
Arrest and Condemnation of Michael Servetus (1553)
25. "Being of a Disposition Somewhat Unpolished and Bashful": John Calvin
Describes His Conversion Experience (1557)
Reformation in England and Scotland
26. "The Field Is Won": Sir Thomas More and the Defense of Papal Supremacy
(1534-1535)
27. "Jangled in Every Alehouse and Tavern": Henry VIII Implores His
Subjects to Put Aside Religious Differences (1545)
28. "My Heart, Do Thine Office": The Execution of Scottish Reformer George
Wishart (1546)
29. "We Will Have .": West Country Resistance to the New English Liturgy
(1549)
30. "That Horrible Monster Jezebel": Scottish Reformer John Knox Denounces
the Queen of England and the Rule of Women (1558)
Catholic Reformation
31. "We Will Remain Unvanquished": Catholic Women Resist the Reformers-The
Short Chronicle of Jeanne de Jussie (ca. 1534)
32. "Remember That You Are a Member of the Society of Jesus": The Work of
the Jesuits in Europe and Without (1552, 1597)
33. "One Day the Eyes of His Soul Were Opened": The Autobiography of St.
Ignatius of Loyola (1555)
34. "Who Has Delivered Me from Myself": A Mystical Reformation-the
Autobiography of Saint Teresa of Ávila (1562)
35. "Scandals and Stumbling-Blocks of the Faithful": Decrees of the Council
of Trent on Purgatory, Relics, Images, and Clerical Concubines (1563)
Europe Divided, 1570-1600
36. "They Threw the Body through the Window into the Courtyard": An Account
of and Reactions to the Murder of French Protestants on St. Bartholomew's
Day (1572)
37. "The Letters of a Deceitful and Hypocritical King": Religion and War in
the Netherlands (1580, 1581)
38. "Unless He Consent and Subscribe to These Articles Following":
Archbishop John Whitgift's Articles for Uncovering Anglican Ministers of
Presbyterian Inclination (1583)
39. "The Wicked and Dangerous Practices of Seditious Sectaries": Dissenting
from the English Via Media-Jesuits and Puritans (1585, 1593)
40. "Obliterated and Forgotten, As If No Such Things Had Ever Happened":
The Edict of Nantes-Ending the Wars of Religion in France (1598)
Appendix 1: Biographical Sketches of Important Individuals Mentioned in
Text
Appendix 2: Glossary of Terms Mentioned in Text
Appendix 3: Comparison of Catholic and Protestant Positions on Key
Doctrines
Appendix 4: Sixteenth-Century Monarchs and Popes
Bibliography
Index