Week 1
Course Introduction
Textbook Reading: Lindberg, chapter 1. For reference, consult also Primer: The Institutional Structure of the Holy Roman Empire and Primer: Reforming the Holy Roman Empire.

• Monday: Anon., Reformatio Sigismundi (c. 1438).
• Wednesday: Eamon Duffy, “The Mass” (Blackboard).

• Monday: Martin Luther, Preface to the Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans (1522) (Blackboard).
• Wednesday: Martin Luther, The Babylonian Captivity of the Church (1520) (Blackboard).
  

• Monday: Constitution of the Free City of Strasbourg (1482)
• Wednesday: Thomas A. Brady, Jr., “In Search of the Godly City: The Domestication of Religion in the German Urban Reformation” (Blackboard) and General Reform of the City of Bern (1528).
  

Week 5:
Reformation and Revolution
Textbook Readings: Lindberg, chapter 6, 8.
Read for discussion in class:

• Monday: Documents on the Peasants' War.
• Wednesday: “The Schleitheim Confession of Faith” (1527) and Peter Riedemann, An Account of Our Religion (1565) (Blackboard)

• For Monday: The Peace of Augsburg (1555).
• For Wednesday: Gerald Strauss, “Success and Failure in the German Reformation” (Blackboard).
  

• Monday: Martin Luther, “The Estate of Marriage” (1522) (Blackboard); Marriage Law Code of the Duchy of Württemberg (1537).
• Wednesday: Steven Ozment, “In Defense of Marriage” (Blackboard); Lyndal Roper, “Weddings and the Control of Marriage” (Blackboard).

• Monday: Calvin on Predestination; The Synod of Dordt (1618-1619) [excerpts].
• Wednesday: Theodore Beza, The Right of Magistrates (1574).

• Monday: John Jewel, An Apology for the Church of England (1562) [excerpt]
• Wednesday: Thanksgiving Holiday

• Monday: Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent (1545-1563) [excerpts] (Blackboard).
• Wednesday: Craig Koslofsky, “Bodies: Placing the Dead in the German Reformation” (Blackboard); David M. Luebke, “Confessions of the Dead: Interpreting Burial Practice in the Late Reformation” (Blackboard).