Religious Developments
Further general reading
- L.P. Buck & J.W. Zophy (eds), The Social History of the Reformation (1972)
- O. Chadwick, The Reformation (1964)
- " , The Early Reformation on the Continent (2001)
- F. Fernandez-Armesto & D. Wilson, Reformation, Christianity and the World 1500-2000 (1996)
- R. Gawthorp; G. Strauss, 'Protestantism and literacy in early modern Germany', P&P 104 (1984)[JStor]
- M. Greengrass, The French Reformation (1987)
- O. P. Grell (ed.), The Scandinavian Reformation (1994)
- H. J. Hillerbrand, The World of the Reformation (1975)
- “ , The Protestant Reformation (1988)
- “ , The Reformation in its own Words (1964)
- E. I. Kouri & T. Scott (eds), Politics and Society in Reformation Europe (1987)
- B. Kümin (ed.), Reformations Old & New: the Socio-Economic Impact of Religious Change (1996)
- E. Léonard, A History of Protestantism, 2 vols (1965-67)
- B. Reardon, Religious Thought in the Reformation (1981)
- H. Oberman, The Reformation: Roots and Ramifications (1994)
- H. Schilling, Religion, Political culture, and the Emergence of Early Modern Society (1992)
- L. W. Spitz, The Protestant Reformation 1517-59 (1984)
- K. Stjerna, Women and the Reformation (2007)
1. ‘Erasmus laid the egg which Luther hatched.’ Discuss.
- J. Atkinson, Martin Luther and the Birth of Protestantism (1968)
- B. Bradshaw, ‘The Christian Humanism of Erasmus’, J.Theological Studies 33 (1982)
- A.G. Dickens, The Age of Humanism and Reformation (1977)
- A.G. Dickens & W.R. Jones, Erasmus the Reformer (1994)
- D. Erasmus, [Selected textsa and biographical note in] Christian Humanism and the Reformation, ed. J.C. Olin (1987)
- A. Goodman & A. Mackay, The Impact of Humanism on Western Europe (1990)
- J. R. Hale, The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance (1993) chaps. 2-3
- L. Halkin, Erasmus: a Critical Biography (1993)
- J. McConica, Erasmus (1991)
- C. Miller, ‘Erasmus’ Praise of Folly’, Renaissance Quarterly 27 (1974)
- J.C. Olin, Christian Humanism and the Reformation (1987) Erasmus, Desiderius (selected texts and biographical notes)
- M. M. Phillips, Erasmus of Christendom (1969)
- A. Rabil, ‘Desiderius Erasmus’, in his Renaissance Humanism 2 (1988)
- R. J. Schoeck, Erasmus of Europe (1993)
- J. D. Tracey, Erasmus of the Low Countries (1997)
2. How much did the early Reformation in Germany owe to Luther’s personality and ideas? [*not for students taking ‘Germany in the Age of the Reformation’]
- R. M. Bainton, Here I Stand (1950)
- P. Blickle, ‘Communal Reformation and peasant piety’, Cenral European History 20 (1987)
- T.A. Brady, Ruling Class, Regime and Reformation at Strasbourg 1520-55 (1978)
- A.G. Dickens, Martin Luther (1967)
- “ , The German Nation and Martin Luther (1974)
- J. Lortz, The Reformation in Germany (1968)
- J. Dillenberger (ed.), Luther: Selections from his Writings (1961)
- F. Clark, Luther and Lutheranism (1972)
- S. H. Hendrix, Luther and the Papacy (1981)
- S. E. Ozment, The Reformation in the Cities (1975)
- R.W. Scribner, For the Sake of Simple Folk: Popular Propaganda for the German Reformation (1994)
- J.C. Wolfart, Religion, Government and Political Culture in Early Modern Germany: Lindau 1520-1628 (2002)
3. Assess the contribution of Huldrych Zwingli [OR: Jean Calvin] to the European Reformation.
Zwingli
- U. Gäbler, Huldrych Zwingli (1988)
- B. Gordon, Clerical Discipline and the Rural Reformation: the Synod in Zürich 1532-1580 (Bern, 1992)
- “ , The Swiss Reformation (2002)
- R. Head, ‘Catholics and Protestants in Graubünden: Confessional discipline and confessional identities without an early modern state?’, in German History 17 (1999), 321-45
- G. W. Locher, Zwingli’s Thought (1981)
- G. R. Potter, Zwingli (1976) and Ulrich Zwingli (1977)
- J. Rilliet, Zwingli (1959)
- W. P. Stephens, The Theology of Huldrych Zwingli (1986)
- “ , Zwingli. An Introduction to his Thought (1992)
- R. L. Walton, Zwingli’s Theocracy (1967)
- “ , ‘Zwingli’, in R. L. de Molen (ed.), Leaders of the Reformation (1984)
Calvin
- J. Calvin, On the Christian Faith, ed. J. T. McNeill (1957)
- “ , Selections, ed. J Dillenberger (1971)
- G. E. Duffield (ed.), John Calvin, Courtenay Studies, vol. 1 (1966), esp. chs 2, 8, 11
- A. Duke et al. (eds), Calvinism in Europe, 1555 - c.1620
- R. C. Gamble (ed.), Articles on Calvin and Calvinism (4 vols., 1993)
- P.S. Gorski, The disciplinary revolution: Calvinism and the rise of the state in early modern Europe (U of Chicago Press, 2003)
- W. F. Graham, The Constructive Revolutionary (1971)
- R.P. Hsia; H. v.Nierop (eds), Calvinismand Religious Toleration in the Dutch Golden Age (2002)
- R. M. Kingdon, Geneva and the Coming of the Wars of Religion in France (1956)
- “ , ‘Was the Genevan Reformation a revolution’? SCH 12 (1975)
- “ , [Two articles on ‘Calvinist discipline’ and ‘Social control’ in H. Guggisberg & G. Krodel (eds), The Reformation in Germany and Europe (1993)
- M. A. Mullett, Calvin (1989)
- G. Murdock, Beyond Calvin: The Intellectual, Political and Cultural World of Europe's Reformed Churches, c. 1540-1620 (2004)
- W. G. Naphy, Calvin and the Consolidation of the Genevan Reformation (1994)
- " , Sex Crimes: from Renaissance to Enlightenment (2002)
- T. Parker, Calvin: an Introduction to his Thought (1995)
- R. S. Wallace, Calvin, Geneva and the Reformation (1988)
- J. T. McNeill, The History and Character of Calvinism (1954)
- W. S. Reid, John Calvin: His Influence in the Western World (1982)
4. ‘The roots of anabaptism were social and economic, rather than theological’. Discuss.
5. Why did Anabaptists arouse such hostility in sixteenth-century Europe?
- R. H. Bainton, ‘The Left Wing of the Reformation’ in his Studies on the Reformation (1964)
- M. G. Baylor (ed.), The Radical Reformation (1991)
- C. P. Classen, ‘The Sociology of Swabian Anabaptism’, CH (1963) SLC
- “ , Anabaptism, a Social History (1972)
- N. Cohn, The Pursuit of the Millenium (1970), chs 12 & 13
- H. J. Goertz (ed.), Profiles of Radical Reformers (1982)
- H. Hillerbrand (ed.), Radical Tendencies in the Reformation (1988)
- R. P. Hsia, ‘Münster and the Anabaptists’ in his (ed.), German People Reformation (1988)
- W. Klaassen, ‘The Anabaptist Understanding of the Separation of the Church’, CH (1977) SLC
- G. Rupp, Patterns of Reformation (1969)
- T. Scott, ‘The Volksreformation of Thomas Müntzer in Allstedt and Mühlhausen’, JEH 34 (1983)
- J. M. Stayer, ‘The Anabaptists and the sects’ in NCMH vol. 2 (1990 edn)
- “ & W. O. Packull (eds), The Anabaptists and Thomas Müntzer (1980)
- G. H. Williams, The Radical Reformation (1962; revised edn 1992)
6. Did Henry VIII’s Reformation constitute ‘Catholicism without the Pope’? [*not for students taking ‘Religion and Religious Change’]
7. ‘By the early seventeenth century, England had become a Protestant nation largely in the sense that it was a profoundly anti-Catholic one.’ Discuss.
- G. W. Bernard, ‘The making of religious policy, 1532-46; Henry VIII & the middle way’, HJ (1998)
- J. Bossy, ‘The Character of Elizabethan Catholicism’, P&P 21 (1962), SLC
- S. Brigden, London and the Reformation (1989)
- P. Collinson, English Puritanism (Hist. Assoc., 1983)
- “ , The Birthpangs of Protestant England (1989)
- “ (ed.), The Sixteenth Century (2002)
- C. Cross, Church and People 1450-1660 (1976)
- A. G. Dickens, The English Reformation (2nd edn, 1989)
- S. Doran, Elizabeth I and Religion 1558-1603 (1992)
- “ & C. Durston, Princes, Pastors and People: Church and Religion in England, 1529-1689 (1991)
- E. Duffy, The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England 1400-1580 (1992)
- “ , The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village (2001)
- A. Dures, English Catholicism 1558-1642 (1983)
- J. Guy, The Public Career of Sir Thomas More (1980)
- C. Haig, English Reformations (1993)
- “ , ‘The Continuity of Catholicism in the English Reformation’, P&P 93 (1981) SLC
- " , 'Success and failure in the English Reformation', P&P (2001)
- C. Harper-Bill, The Pre-Reformation Church in England 1400-1530 (1989)
- F. Heal, Reformation in Britain and Ireland (2003)
- R. Hutton, ‘The Local Impact of the Tudor Reformations’, in Haigh, EnglishReformation Revised (1997)
- N. Jones, The English Reformation: Religion and Cultural Adaptation (2002)
- J. Loach, ‘Mary Tudor and the re-Catholicization of England’, HT 44 (1994)
- D. Loades, Revolution in Religion: the English Reformation, 1530-1570 (1992)
- D. MacCulloch, ‘England’ in A Pettegree (ed.), The Early Reformation in Europe (1992)
- “ , The Later Reformation in England 1547-1603 (2nd edn, 2001)
- " , Tudor Church Militant (1999)
- " , 'Putting the English Reformation on the map' in : TRHS (2005)
- P. Marshall (ed.), The Impact of the English Reformation, 1500-1640 (1997)
- " , Reformation England 1480-1642 (2003)
- “ & A. Ryrie (eds), The Beginnings of English Protestantism (2002)
- D. M. Palliser, ‘Popular Reactions to the Reformation during the years of Uncertainty’, in Heal & O’Day (eds), Church and Society in England (1977)
- A. Pettegree, Marian Protestantism (1996), esp. ch. 6 and Conclusion
- R. Rex, Henry VIII and the English Reformation (1992)
- J. J. Scarisbrick, The Reformation and the English People (1984)
- E. Shagan, Popular Politics and the English Reformation (2002)
- W. J. Sheils, The English Reformation 1530-70 (1989)
- A. Walsham, Church Papists (1996)
- R. Whiting, The Blind Devotion of the People (1989)
- G. W. Woodward, The Dissolution of the Monasteries (1966)
- J. Youings, The Dissolution of the Monasteries (1971)
8. ‘Its sympathy for popular culture gave the Catholic Church a decisive advantage in the religious struggles of the later sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.’ Is this a fair assessment?
9. Was the Council of Trent ‘a triumph for papal authority’?
- J.C. Aveling, The Jesuits (1981), esp. chs 3-5
- J. Bossy, ‘The Social History of Confession in the Age of the Reformation’ TRHS 25 (1975) SLC
- “ , Peace in the Post-Reformation (1998)
- L. Châtellier, The Religion of the Poor: Rural Missions & the Formation of Modern Catholicism (1997)
- F. Clark, The Catholic Reformation (1972)
- R. De Molen, Religious Orders of the Catholic Reformation (1994)
- A. G. Dickens, The Counter Reformation (1968)
- H. O. Evennett, The Spirit of the Counter Reformation (1968)
- M. Forster, The Counter Reformation in the Villages: Religion and Reform in the Bishopric of Speyer (1992)
- C. Harline, ‘Official Religion, Popular Religion in Historiography of the Catholic Reformation’, ARG (1990)
- P. Janelle, The Catholic Reformation (1963)
- H. Kamen, Inquisition and Society in Spain (1985)
- “ , The Phoenix and the Flame: Catalonia and the Counter Reformation (1993)
- M. Mullett, The Counter Reformation (1984)
- J. C. Olin, Catholic Reform 1495-1563 (1990)
- J. W. O’Malley (ed.), Catholicism in Early Modern History (1988), esp. Burke on ‘Popular Piety’
- “ , The First Jesuits (1993), esp. ch. 8
- R. Portner, The Counter Reformation in Central Europe: Styria 1580-1630 (2001)
- H. Rawlings, Church, Religion and Society in Early Modern Spain (2002)
- J.C. Smith, Sensuous Worship: Jesuits and the Art of the Early Catholic Reformation in Germany (Princeton, 2002)
- P.L. Soergel, Wondrous in His Saints: Counter-Reformation Propaganda in Bavaria (1993) [online in NetLibrary]
- M. Wiesner-Hanks (ed.), Convents confront the Reformation: Catholic and Protestant Nuns in Germany (1996) [edition of four texts; online for subscribers in Questia]
- A. D. Wright, The Counter Reformation (1981), esp. chs 1, 8