European Reformation
Dave Postles (pot@leicester.ac.uk)
Thu, 2 Nov 1995 08:09:10 +0000
Ozment and the Hillerbrand reader have been mentioned. For the English
Reformation, I use Haigh's _English Reformations_, which my students were
enthusiastic about the last time I taught the course (we haven't reached that
point yet this semester). I also use Wunderli's _Peasant Fires_ for the
pre-Reformation background. Mark Noll's _Confessions and Catechisms of the
Reformation_ (Baker) provides the 95 Theses, Luther's Smaller Catechism, the
Augsburg Confession, the Canons and Decrees of Trent, the 39 Articles, and
some other things. And then we do the Autobiography of St. Ignatius.
I have used parts of Cameron on reserve--I think it's essential to pair with
Ozment in parts because it provides a good critique of Ozment's "oppressive
religious culture" thesis. My students (sophomores and juniors) haven't
seemed to find it any more difficult than anything else they have been asked
to read--though I *have* only assigned short passages from it.
Lucy Moye
Department of History
Hillsdale College
lucy.moye@ac.hillsdale.edu
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