History 320 The European Reformation

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History 320The European Reformation
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500-word essay
Week Monday Wednesday
3 20 / 22 Jan Stephen Megan Adam Jill
4 27 / 29 Jan Linda Ngaio David Trevor
5 3 / 5 Feb Diana Cellene Genevieve Travis
6 17 / 19 Feb Connor Stephanie King Yan Julia
7 24 / 26 Feb Adrienne Christina Elissa
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Questions for Discussion

1. What is your historical question that helps us
   think about Chapter 2?
2. What was the most important thing you learned in
   this chapter? Did it confirm your earlier
   assumptions, or did it make you think differently
   about the background to the Reformation?

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Historical Questions

1. In what ways did the Reconquista affect Catholic
   belief in Spain?
2. Should historians look beyond key people to
   consider the general public in the expansion of
   Christendom / Reformation?
3. Did a lack of major non-Christian religions allow
   the Reformation to flourish in Northern Europe as
   distinct from Spain?

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Historical Questions

1. To what extent did Islamic military aggression
   affect the rise of Protestantism?
2. In what ways did Spain use Christianity to
   fulfill imperialistic desires?
3. Would the Reformation have happened without the
   technology of print?

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Questions for Discussion

• Chapter 2 is entitled Hopes and Fears,
  1490-1517. Pay attention to the concepts of hope
  and fear, optimism and pessimism, and related
  ideas as you read the chapter. Is this an
  appropriate title or just a catchy heading? What
  does MacCulloch want to tell us about the
  pre-Reformation world with this title?

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Questions for Discussion

1. What function does the opening section, Shifting
   Boundaries, have in the context of the entire
   chapter?
2. What is distinctive about Spanish Catholicism?
3. What effect did paper, printing, and humanism
   have on the religious culture of late medieval
   Europe?

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Some terms to know

• conversos, moriscos, Cardinal Ximénes,
  alumbrados, Patronato, Bartolomé de las Casas
• humanism, ad fontes
• Vulgate Bible, Complutensian Polyglot
• scholasticism, Thomism
• Fifth Lateran Council
• prône, Guillaume Briçonnet
• Savonarola
• Erasmus.

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Hopes and Fears, 1490-1517

• Shifting Boundaries
• The Iberian Exception
• The Iberian Achievement
• New Possibilities Paper and Printing
• Humanism A New World from Books
• Putting Renewal into Practice
• Reform or the Last Days?
• Erasmus Hopes Fulfilled, Fears Stilled

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Iberian Reformation before the Reformation
(60-61)

• ethnic cleansing, Inquisition
• New Christians conversos, moriscos
• Cardinal Francisco Ximénes de Cisneros (d.
  1517)
• Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)
• Patronato

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Renaissance

• printing
• Latin and vernacular books
• humanism a refocusing of old learning (77)
• patronage from the ecclesiastical establishment
• ad fontes
• biblical scholarship
• Complutensian Polyglot
• Greek New Testament (1516)
• humanism and scholasticism

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Reform Efforts

• Fifth Lateran Council (1512-1517)
• monastic / mendicant reform
• Egidio da Viterbo (1469-1532)
• Guillaume de Briçonnet (1470-1534)
• Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498)

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Erasmus of Rotterdam (d. 1536)

• biblical scholarship
• satire
• Reformation of Manners

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Footnotes / Bibliography Monograph

• Footnote
• 1. Diarmaid MacCulloch, Reformation Europes
  House Divided (London Penguin, 2004), 36.
• Bibliography
• MacCulloch, Diarmaid. Reformation
  Europes House Divided. London Penguin, 2004.

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Footnotes / Bibliography Journal Article

• Footnote
• 2. Geoffrey Parker, Success and Failure during
  the First Century of the Reformation, Past and
  Present 136 (1992) 46-47.
• Bibliography
• Parker, Geoffrey. Success and
  Failure during the First Century of the
  Reformation. Past and Present 136 (1992) 43-82.

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Bibliography Alphabetical Order

• MacCulloch, Diarmaid. Reformation
  Europes House Divided. London Penguin, 2004.
• Parker, Geoffrey. Success and Failure
  during the First Century of the Reformation.
  Past and Present 136 (1992) 43-82.

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Leading Class Discussion
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