Re: European Reformation
Dave Postles (pot@leicester.ac.uk)
Tue, 31 Oct 1995 15:08:43 +0000
I am teaching a course on the European Reformation that covers
precisely the same territory yours will. I asked the list for help, and
I got wonderful replies. I ended up using De Lamar Jensen's text by D.
C. Heath called *Reformation Europe: Age of Reform and Revolution.* It
covers the years we need. I also assigned a reader called *The
Protestant Reformation* ed. by Hans J. Hillerbrand and published by
Harper Torchbooks. For women, I used Sherrin Marshall's collection
*Women in Reformation and Counter-Reformation Europe* published by
Indiana, although I also heard good things about Merry Wiesner[-Hanks']
book on women in Early modern Europe. On the religious wars, I used
Barbara Diefendorf, *Beneath the Cross: Catholics and Huguenots in
Sixteenth-Century Paris* (Oxford), and David Underdown, *Fire From
Heaven: Life in an English Town in the Seventeenth Century* (Yale).
I found that the reader by Hillerbrand was good, except for the
sections on Anglicanism, so I used a selection from Lewis Spitz's
anthology (also called *The Protestant Reformation* and not to be
confused with his textbook of the same name). My class is half lecture/
half-discussion of the readings, with papers due at the end of 4
sections. The papers answer a general question about that part of the
course. If you would like a copy of my syllabus, or would like a list of
the other books that were suggested to me, please reply privately, and
I'll send them along.
Ginger Frost
Judson College
gfrost@nslsilus.org
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