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.

• Tuesday: Anon., Reformatio Sigismundi (c. 1438) (Canvas).
• Thursday: Eamon Duffy, “The Mass” (1992) (Canvas).

• Tuesday: Martin Luther, Preface to the Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans (1522).
• Thursday: Martin Luther, The Babylonian Captivity of the Church (1520) (Canvas).
  

• Tuesday: Constitution of the Free City of Strasbourg (1482)
• Thursday: Thomas A. Brady, Jr., “In Search of the Godly City: The Domestication of Religion in the German Urban Reformation” (Canvas) 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:

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

• Tuesday: The Peace of Augsburg (1555).
• Thursday: Gerald Strauss, “Success and Failure in the German Reformation” (1975) (Canvas); Geoffrey Parker, “Success and Failure During the First Century of the Reformation” (1992) (Canvas); “The Palatine Visitation of 1556” (Canvas).
  

• Tuesday: Martin Luther, “The Estate of Marriage” (1522) (Canvas); Marriage Law Code of the Duchy of Württemberg (1537).
• Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer, “‘Nothing More than Common Whores and Knaves’: Married Monks and Nuns in the Early German Reformation” (2014) (Canvas).

• Tuesday: Calvin on Predestination (1559); The Synod of Dordt (1618-1619) [excerpts].
• Thursday: Theodore Beza, The Right of Magistrates (1574) [excerpts] (Canvas).

• Tuesday: John Jewel, An Apology for the Church of England (1562) [excerpt] (Canvas).
• Thursday: Benjamin Kaplan, “Fictions of Privacy: House Chapels and Spatial Accommodation of Religious Dissent in Early Modern Europe” (2002) (Canvas); Jesse Spohnholz, “Multiconfessional Celebration of the Eucharist in Sixteenth-Century Wesel” (2008) (Canvas).

• Tuesday: Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent (1545-1563) [excerpts].
• Thursday: Craig Koslofsky, “Bodies: Placing the Dead in the German Reformation” (2000) (Canvas); David M. Luebke, “Confessions of the Dead: Interpreting Burial Practice in the Late Reformation” (2010) (Canvas).