Evening Module Programme
The evening (part-time) version of 'Germany in the Age of the Reformation' is structured in four parts [not running in 2011-12]:
I. Germany on the Eve of the Reformation
II. Reformation Culture
III. Social Impact
IV. Legacies
[Autumn Term]
Part I: GERMANY ON THE EVE OF THE REFORMATION
Week 2. Introduction and organization
Lecture: The political landscape of the Holy Roman Empire
Week 3. Seminar 1: An age of political instability?
Lecture: Socio-economic and cultural life in the late Middle Ages
Week 4. Seminar 2: An age of socio-economic unrest?
Lecture: The late medieval Church
Week 5. Seminar 3: Church and people on the eve of the Reformation
Lecture: Martin Luther - a restless monk
[6. Reading Week]
Part II: REFORMATION CULTURE
Week 7. Seminar 4: Luther - Man and personality
Lecture: Reformation doctrines
Week 8. Seminar 5: Luther's message
Lecture: Reformed liturgy and rituals
[non-assessed short essay due]
Week 9. Seminar 6: Reformation propaganda: verbal
Lecture: Dissemination of Reformation ideas
Week 10. Seminar 7: Reformation propaganda: non-verbal
Lecture: Challenges from within - disagreements among theologians
[Spring Term]
Part III: SOCIAL IMPACT
Week 11. Seminar 8: Workshop on Reformation Resources
(meet at the entrance of the Learning Grid, University House, at 6 pm)
Lecture: Rural Reformation
Week 12. Seminar 9: The Reformation in the countryside
Lecture: Urban Reformation
Week 13. Seminar 10: The Peasants' War
Lecture. Radical Reformation
Week 14. Seminar 11: The Kingdom of Münster
Lecture: Gender roles
Week 15. Seminar 12: Women and the Reformation
Lecture: The Princes' Reformation
[Reading Week]
Week 17: Seminar 13: Essay writing skills
Lecture: The clergy in the age of the Reformation
Week 18. Seminar 14: Institutionalizing the Reformation
Lecture: Protestants and other confessions
[non-assessed short essay due]
Week 19. Seminar 15: Confessional identities
Lecture: Imperial Politics
Week 20. Seminar 16: Emperor Charles V
Essay feedback
[Title / materials for long essay to be finalized with seminar tutor by the end of the Spring Term; there should be no 'significant' overlap with exam questions / long essay topics in other modules]
[Summer Term]
Part IV: LEGACIES
Week 21. Seminar 17: Essay surgery
Lecture: Conceptualizations and long-term effects
Week 22. Seminar 18: Conclusion
[mock exam opportunity]
Week 24 or 25: Revision class and exam surgery
[Long essay due at History Office by departmental deadline]
Model exam paper:
Recent model exam papers for this module can be found at:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/exampapers
For the evening module handbook please click here (Warwick users only)
Classes run weekly (with the exception of weeks 1, 6 and 16) on Wednesday evenings from 6-8 pm.
They are divided into a one-hour seminar and a one-hour lecture (with a short break in between)
To provide additional materials, participate in debates, post theses etc please use the Evening Module Forum (making sure that you 'sign in' via the link appearing top-right on your screen; cf. forum aims and rules)
Short web address: http://go.warwick.ac.uk/germanyreformation/evening