2:30-3:45P     TR     BH245

Above section carries culture studies credit
A portion of the above section reserved for majors

This course will concentrate on one of the most cataclysmic events in
European history: the massive religious, political, and cultural
upheavals of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries associated with
the Protestant and Catholic Reformations.  These upheavals profoundly
transformed the social world of Early Modern Europe, not only
splitting Christianity into competing confessions, but also
transforming the nature of government, the relationship between social
classes, the role of women in society, attitudes toward work, love,
faith, reason, and so on.  The bulk of the class will focus on the
period between 1500 and 1560.  We will, however, also examine the
various contexts that spawned the Reformations, and try to evaluate
the longer term significance of these transformations within European
religious, social, and cultural life.  From the Thirty Years War to
the religious revivals of the seventeenth century, the class will
analyze the Reformations as long term transformations in the
historical landscape of Early Modern Europe.

Primary texts will include materials by such writers as:  Brant,
Luther, Müntzer, Erasmus, Charles V, More, Calvin, Cajetan, Eck,
Servetus, Franck, Theresa of Avila, John of the Cross, Ignatius
Loyola, as well as other documents from the period.