Seminar Topics
AUTUMN
Week 1: [No classes for Year 2 options yet]
Week 2: Introduction and Organization
Week 3: Politics and Tensions
Week 4: Living in Late Medival Germany
Week 5: Religious Beliefs and Practices
[Reading Week]
Week 7: Debate - An Age of Reform or Decline?
Week 8: Luther - Man and Myth
Week 9: Luther's Message
Week 10: Communication and Media
SPRING
Week 11: The Reformed
Week 12: Reformation Writing - Issues and Resources
Week 13: The Peasants' War
Week 14: The Kingdom of Münster
(week 15): Extended essay surgery
[Reading Week]
Week 17: Deciding on Faith in Sixteenth-Century Cities
Week 18: Debate - Was the Reformation 'Good for Women'?
Week 19: Institutionalizing the Reformation
Week 20: Confessional Identities
SUMMER
Week 21: Charles V - a failure?
Week 22: Conclusion
(tbc): Revision session