Roanoke CollegeSalem, Virginia

Fall 2011

HIST 231/RELG 212: The Reformation.Instructor: Gary G. Gibbs.Office: 308 Bank Bldg.Office Hours: M & W Blk 5.Office Phone Number: 540-375-2202.

Course Description: Euan Cameron writes in The European Reformation (Oxford 1991): “The Primary theme [e.g., “the Reformation”] is so vast that no justice could hope to be done to wider social, cultural, or intellectual trends” (ix). Obviously our task is complex. The course will focus on academic concepts and methods as we survey the events of the Reformation(s). As we examine the religious, cultural, and social transformations of the sixteenth century let’s continually critique the approach of our authors and ourselves.

Course Objectives:

1. To introduce students to the basic patterns of European cultural history during the period defined as “the Reformation” or, better yet, “the Reformations.”

2. To introduce students to the manner in which historians analyze the past.

3. To introduce students to the close reading and analysis of primary sources.

4. To foster critical and analytical skills.

Learning Outcomes:

1. By the end of the semester, students will be able to describe the basic event of the sixteenth century religious debates.

2. By the end of the semester, student will be able to describe various methods employed by academics to study religious topics.

Course Requirements:

1. Attendance is mandatory. An excess of four absences will result in the lowering of the student's final course grade by a penalty of one grade per additional absence. Please note: this does not mean that you can miss four classes and then present a doctors note for subsequent meetings and be “excused.” THERE ARE NO “EXCUSED” OR “UNEXCUSED” ABSENCES! You are allowed 4 absences, which is more than a week of class. This policy includes student athletes.

2. Turn off your cell phones! Do you realize how rude that is?3. Turn off your computers. Notes may be taken on paper with

pens or pencils. 4. There will be 2 in-class tests, the first on 30 Sept, the second on 31

Oct. There will also be a final examination on the day and time set by the college. Make-up exams will only be given with proof of medical emergency. Anybody who looks at or consults any sort of electronic communication device such as a cell phone or any other messaging system during an exam will be consider in violation of the Roanoke College academic integrity policy.

5. Any and all homework assignments must be turned in typed and not handwritten.

6. There may be quizzes and in-class writing assignments.7. Students will write a seven-page book review due in class on 14

November (some suggested titles may be found at the end of this syllabus). You should select your book in consultation with the instructor. Finally, the book should be at least 190 pages in length.

8. Students are expected to have completed the reading assignments prior to class. Please be aware that we will not cover in class all of the information that is contained in the text. Students are expected to have read and to understand the information in the text so as to inform their class participation. The appropriate time to seek clarification of any information in the text is when we are discussing the material in class.

Grades:

Tests: 2 in-class tests @ 15%.......30%Final Exam: 1 Final exam @ 30%Presentation: 1 @ 15%7-page book review: 1 @ 15%Misc. assignments, quizzes, & participation: 10%Grade values :

A 92-100A- 90-91

B+ 88-89B 82-87B- 80-81C+ 78-79C 72-77C- 70-71D+ 68-69D 62-67D- 60-61F less than 59

Course Text:

Diarmaid MacCulloch, The Reformation (NY: Penguin, 2003).

Students are expected to conform to the guidelines and standards of the Roanoke College Academic Integrity Policy.

Special Services:

The Writing Center at Roanoke College is located in the Center for Learning and Teaching on the first floor of the Fintel Library. Please make use of their peer-tutoring services as you see fit.

The Office of Disability and Support Services is also located in the Center for Learning and Teaching. If you have documentation for specific learning requirements, please contact them at 375-2247.

This syllabus is subject to change at the discretion of the instructor.

Schedule:

W 31 Aug: In the beginning….F 2 Sep: “The Old Church,” MacCulloch, pp. 3-26.

M 5 Sept: Papacy, MacCulloch, pp. 26-52. Michelle Graham

W 7 Sept: Iberia. MacCulloch, pp. 53-76.F 9 Sept: Humanism. MacCulloch, pp. 76-105.

Sonya Frostad

M 12 Sept: Young Luther. MacCulloch, pp. 106-137.

Keenan SgroiW 14 Sept: The Movement Moves… MacCulloch, pp. 137-157.

Terell JohnsonF 16 Sept: Church and Magistrate? MacCulloch, pp. 158-179.

Printing press, ca. 1568

M 19 Sept: Ditto. MacCulloch, pp. 179-212.W 21 Sept: Jesuits. MacCulloch, pp. 213-237.

Robert ReinhardtF 23 Sept: Calvin. MacCulloch, pp. 237-269.

Nicholas Galloway

M 26 Sept: Catholic Dynasties Advance. MacCulloch, pp. 270-303.

Patrick DelBuonoW 28 Sept: Mid-century Conflicts. MacCulloch, pp. 303-313.

Chloe HigginsF 30 Sept: Test #1.

M 3 Oct: A Divided Europe? MacCulloch, pp. 317-330.Shane Bourque

W 5 Oct: Ditto. MacCulloch, pp. 330-346.F 7 Oct: Defining Protestant Cultures. MacCulloch, pp. 347-367.

Greg Perdue

M 10 Oct: Ditto. MacCulloch, pp. 367-382.W 12 Oct: Ditto. MacCulloch, pp. 382-399.F 14 Oct: Defining Catholic Cultures. MacCulloch, pp. 400-427.

Eisheh Sarafandi

M 17 Oct: no class.W 19 Oct: no class.F 21 Oct: no class. M 24 Oct: Central Europe & France. MacCulloch, pp. 442-464.

Colin Picard W 26 Oct: French Wars of Religion. MacCulloch, pp. 464-484.

Amanda LaphamF 28 Oct: Movie: TBA.

M 31 Oct: Test 2. W 2 Nov: Thirty Years’ War. MacCulloch, pp. 485-502.

Zachary ConnerF 4 Nov: Early Stuart Britain. MacCulloch, pp. 502-20.

Hana Snowden

When did you last see your father? William Frederick Yeames

Cromwell at Dunbar, Andrew Carrick Gow

M 7 Nov: British Civil Wars. MacCulloch, pp. 520-545.Jeremy Loftis

W 9 Nov: Imagining the end of times. MacCulloch, pp. 549-62.Jacob Pruitt

F 11 Nov: Witches. MacCulloch, pp. 563-575.Steve Huffman

M 14 Nov: Death and Magic. MacCulloch, pp. 576-591.Hayley Booth

W 16 Nov: Godly behavior. MacCulloch, pp. 591-607.Carroll Mitchell

Rembrandt, Clothmaker’s Guild, 1662

F 18 Nov: Family. MacCulloch, pp. 608-620.Maria Carino

Due in class: Book Reviews [please send an electronic copy via email attachment to gibbs@roanoke.edu, and bring a paper copy to class].

M 21 Nov: Sodomy. MacCulloch, pp. 620-629.Ethan Guebert

W 23 Nov: no class.F 25 Nov: no class.

M 28 Nov: Reformation of Manners. MacCulloch, pp. 630-646.Ashley Stoots

W 30 Nov: Protestant Family? MacCulloch, pp. 647-667.F 2 Dec: Wars of Reformation and Toleration. MacCulloch, pp. 668-679.

M 9 Dec: Humanism and Natural Philosophy. MacCulloch, pp. 679-688.W 7 Dec: Judaism and Doubts. MacCulloch, pp. 688-698.

Matthew SmithF 9 Dec: Enlightenment and Beyond. MacCulloch, pp. 698-708.

Jaymes Inman

Final Exam: W 14 Dec: 8:30-11:30 am

Re. presentations:

1. You should not lead a discussion over the material in the MacCulloch text. Instead, take the topic as the beginning of your research. For example, if your topic were the young Luther, then see what MacCulloch states re. Luther prior to ca. 1525. Then go to the library and research what another author has written about the same issue. What you wish to present to the class is the findings of this research.

2. Be prepared to present the same sort of analytical models we will be employing in class. So, one might state that there is a book by Erik Erickson that attempts a psychological analysis of Luther as a young man. Then one might offer an example of how Erikson finds meaning from Luther’s life with this approach. Then there could be a discussion of the merits and deficits of such an approach. Use your imagination…what other approaches might there be? A nationalist one: the German Luther? A class one? Etc.

3. Be creative with your presentation. Consider how you might present your information in an imaginative fashion. If other students have done the same thing for a while, then break the pattern with something new.

4. Come and visit the professor prior to the presentation to discuss both content and approach. I will be grading both.

5. Watch the time. Length does not score you points. Aim for 10 minutes; I will stop you at 12 minutes.

6. Remember that the key issue is not to tell the class facts, but to talk about analytical models.

7. Be certain to identify your book, and it should be a book…not an internet source.

Re. papers:

1. Identify the thesis of your book.

2. Talk about the organization that the author employs. Gauge the degree to which that organization supports the thesis.

3. Evaluate the sources the author has used for the study and the method of employed for analysis.

4. Feel free to make a quick comparison to MacCulloch, but this is not required.

5. Citations are helpful and may be referenced parenthetically.6. Most importantly, describe the manner in which your book

creates a useful model for understanding some aspect of the European Reformation.

7. Offer some criticism of the work (nothing in life is perfect).

Books for reviews:

Scotland Reformed:  the Reformation in Angus and the Mearns by Frank D Bardgett

Change and Continuity in the French Episcopate: the Bishops and the Wars of Religion, 1547-1610 by Frederic J. Baumgartner

The Enlightenment and Religion: Myth or Modernity by S.J. Barnett

The Politics of the Reformation in Germany: Jacob Sturm (1489-1553) of Strasbourg by Thomas A. Brady, Jr.

Conflicting Visions of Reform: German Lay Propaganda Pamphlets, 1519-1530 by Miriam Usher Chrisman

William Tyndale: a Biography by David Daniell The Reformation in Germany by C. Scott DixonThe Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an

English village by Eamon Duffy Reforming the Scottish Church: John Winram (c. 1492-1582)

and the Example of Fife by Linda J. Dunbar Luther's Last Battles: Politics and Polemics, 1531-46 by Mark U.

Edwards, Jr.Young man Luther; a Study in Psychoanalysis and History by

Erik EriksonWomen, Reform and Community in Early Modern England:

Katherine Willoughby, Duchess of Suffolk, and Lincolnshire's Godly Aristocracy, 1519-1580 by Melissa Franklin Harkrider.

Thomas More by John Guy English Reformations: Religion, Politics, and Society under the

Tudors by Christopher Haigh

Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614 by L.P. HarveyThe Reformation in Britain and Ireland: an Introduction by W.

Ian P. HazlettLuther and the Papacy: Stages in a Reformation Conflict by

Scott H. HendrixEmpires and Entrepots: the Dutch, the Spanish Monarchy, and

the Jews, 1585-1713 by Jonathan I. IsraelWomen in late medieval and Reformation Europe, 1200-1550 by

Helen M. JewellThe English Reformation: Religion and Cultural Adaptation by

Norman JonesEdinburgh and the Reformation by  Michael LynchThe Boy King: Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation by

Diarmaid MacCulloch Thomas Cranmer: a Life by Diarmaid MacCullochMelanchthon, the Quiet Reformer by Clyde Leonard Manschreck The Imaginative World of the Reformation by Peter MathesonEnforcing the English Reformation in Ireland: Clerical

Resistance and Political Conflict in the Diocese of Dublin, 1534-1590 by James Murray

Luther: Man between God and the Devil by Heiko A. ObermanProtestants : the Birth of a Revolution by Steven OzmentThe Reformation in the Cities: the Appeal of Protestantism to

Sixteenth century Germany and Switzerland by Steven E. Ozment

Religious Choice in the Dutch Republic: the Reformation of Arnoldus Buchelius, 1565-1641 by Judith Pollmann 

Zwingli by G. R. PotterThe Puritan revolution and the English Civil War by Stuart E.

Prall Henry VIII and the English Reformation by Richard RexMedieval Wall Paintings in English & Welsh Churches by Roger

RosewellJiménez de Cisneros : on the threshold of Spain's Golden Age by

Erika RummelLay Theology in the Reformation: Popular Pamphleteers in

Southwest Germany, 1521-1525 by Paul A. RussellAyrshire and the Reformation: People and Change, 1490-1600

by Margaret H. B. SandersonMartin Luther, Roman Catholic Prophet by Gregory Sobolewski Luther in Context by David C. SteinmetzZwingli : an Introduction to his Thought by W.P. StephensHolland under Habsburg rule, 1506-1566: the Formation of a

Body Politic by James D. TracyPolitics or Religion? The Reformation in Perth, 1540–1570 by

Mary Verschuur.

The Blind Devotion of the People: Popular Religion and the English Reformation by Robert Whiting

The Conversion of Henri IV: Politics, Power, and Religious Belief in early modern France by Michael Wolfe 

The Assurance of Faith: Conscience in the Theology of Martin Luther and John Calvin by Randall C. Zachman