Voices of the Reformation - Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life

Informationen zum Autor John A. Wagner , PhD, has taught British and U.S. history at Phoenix College and Arizona State University, USA. He is co-editor, with Susan Walters Schmid, of the three-volume Encyclopedia of Tudor England (ABC-CLIO 2011), editor of Voices of Shakespeare’s England (Greenwood 2010) and Documents of Shakespeare’s England (ABC-CLIO 2019), and author of the Encyclopedia of the Wars of the Roses (ABC-CLIO 2001). Klappentext This fascinating collection of primary source documents furnishes the accounts-in their own words-of those who initiated, advanced, or lived through the Reformation. Starting in 1500, Europe transformed from a united Christendom into a continent bitterly divided between Catholicism and Protestantism by the end of the century. This illuminating text reveals what happened during that period by presenting the social, religious, economic, political, and cultural life of the European Reformation of the 16th century in the words of those who lived through it. Detailed and comprehensive, the work includes 60 primary source documents that shed light on the character, personalities, and events of that time and provides context, questions, and activities for successfully incorporating these documents into academic research and reading projects. A special section provides guidelines for better evaluating and understanding primary documents. Topics include late medieval religion, Martin Luther, reformation in Germany and the Peasants' War, the rise of Calvinism, and the English Reformation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments Evaluating and Interpreting Primary Documents Chronology of the Protestant Reformation Documents of the Reformation Late Medieval Religion 1. "Men Loaded with Gold and Clad in Purple": Criticisms of the Avignon Papacy (Mid-14th Century) 2. "Such Evidence Should Satisfy No One": English Cleric John Wycliffe on the Eucharist and the Power of the Pope (1377, 1384) 3. "God Will Help Thy Good Intent": The Imitation of Christ , the Devotio Moderna , and the Call for Reform (ca. 1420) 4. "Wherefore Are Some Chosen and Others Cast Out?": The Reformation Foreshadowed in the Life and Preaching of Fra Girolamo Savonarola (1493, 1497) 5. "May I Be Lost If in All of Luther's Works There Is a Single Syllable of Mine": Erasmus and His Circle React to Martin Luther and the Start of the German Reformation (1518, 1521) Reformation in Germany 6. "He Has Collected Many Heresies": The Edict of Worms (1521) 7. "On Holy Easter There Was Neither Singing Nor Preaching": An Account of the Peasants' War (1525) 8. "It Is Consistent with Scripture That We Should Be Free": The Twelve Articles of the Peasants (1525) 9. "One Simple Truth and Christian Concord": The Augsburg Confession (1530) 10. "Shall Let Them Quietly and Peacefully Enjoy Their Religion": The Peace of Augsburg (1555) Martin Luther and Lutheranism 11. "They Now Fish for the Riches of Men": Martin Luther's 95 Theses (1517) 12. "So That We May Blow Down These Walls of Straw and Paper": Luther's Address to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation (1520) 13. "From the Word I Would Not Depart": Martin Luther's Account of His Hearing before the Diet of Worms (1521) 14. "This Damnable and Offensive Worm": Martin Luther and the King of England (1522, 1525) 15. "Indulging in Nothing but Robbery, Murder, and Bloodshed": Martin Luther Reacts to the Peasants' War (1525) Ulrich Zwingli, Anabaptism, and the Reformation in Switzerland 16. "The Decree about Cheese and Butter Is a Roman Swindle": The 67 Articles Defended by Ulrich Zwingli (1523) 17. "Baptism of Infants, the Supreme Abomination of the Roman Pontiff": The Schleitheim Confession (1527) 18. "The Hangman Shall Dispute with You": An Account of the Trial a...

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• Authors: John Wagner, John A. Wagner, Paula Watson-Lakamp
• Assisted by: John A. Wagner (Editor)
• Publisher: Greenwood Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2015
• EAN: 9781610696791
• ISBN: 978-1-61069-679-1
• No. of pages: 252
• Series: Voices of an Era; Voices of an Era
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity