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 A Tide of Religious Reform

Texts:

  • Desiderius Erasmus: The Praise of Folly
  • Thomas More: Utopia, 1516]
  • Martin Luther: On the Freedom of a Christian
  • Martin Luther: Letter to Archbishop of Mainz, 1517 [On Indulgences
  • The 95 Theses
  • Philip Melanchthon: Augsburg Confession: Article XIII: The Use of Sacraments
  • The Twelve Articles of the German Peasants
  • The Peace of Augsburg
  • The Schleitheim Confession
  • John Calvin: On Double Predestination
  • John Calvin: The Necessity of Reforming the Church
  • Archbishop Thomas Cranmer: Letter on Henry VIII's Divorce
  • Act of Supremacy
  • Witchcraft Documents

    Images:

    The Catholic Reformation

    Texts:

  • St. Ignatius Loyola: The Spiritual Exercises
  • The Council of Trent: Council of Trent
  • Council of Trent: Decree on Reformation
  • Council of Trent: On the Invocation, Veneration, and Relics, of Saints, and on Sacred Images
  • Council of Trent: Rules on Prohibited Books
  • Phillip II of Spain: Letters, 1592-1597

    Europe Erupts Again: A Century of Religious Warfare, 1559 – 1648

    Texts:

  • De Thou: St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre
  • Edict of Nantes
  • Elizabeth I: Against the Spanish Armada
  • The Dutch Declaration of Independence
  • Otto Von Guericke, the Burgomeister of Magdeburg: The Destruction of Magdeburg
  • Treaty of Westphalia

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    Life After the Reformation

    Texts:

  • Martin Luther. The Estate of Marriage, 1522
  • Malleus Malificaram

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