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Title:
Voices of the Reformation : contemporary accounts of daily life / John A. Wagner, editor.
Author:
Wagner, J. A. (John A.), editor.
Publication Information:
Santa Barbara, California : Greenwood, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2015]
Call Number:
BR301 .V65 2015
ISBN:
9781610696791

9781610696807
Series:
Voices of an era

Voices of an era.
Physical Description:
xxxiv, 308 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
Contents:
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 and Execution of Michael Sattler (1527) -- 19. "What Shame, Pray, Will Be Left Us?": Ulrich Zwingli's "Refutation of the Tricks of the Baptists" (1527) -- 20. "He Compelled Me to Seize a Pen": Ulrich Zwingli's Letter to Joachim Vadian Concerning the Marburg Colloquy (1529).

John Calvin and Calvinism -- 21. "A Question, in the Opinion of Many, Full of Perplexity": John Calvin on the Doctrine of Predestination (1536) -- 22. "Taverns Shall Be Closed during the Sermon": Ordinances for the Regulation of the Churches Dependent Upon the Seigniory of Geneva (1547) -- 23. "His Said Book Could Not Be Tollerated Even among Papists": The Charges Brought against Michael Servetus (1553) -- 24. "He is a Monster Not to Be borne": John Calvin's Letters Describing the Arrest and Condemnation of Michael Servetus (1553) -- 25. "Being of a Disposition Somewhat Unpolished and Bashful": John Calvin Describes His Conversion Experience (1557) -- Reformation in England and Scotland -- 26. "The Field Is Won": Sir Tomas More and the Defense of Papal Supremacy (1534-1535) -- 27. "Jangled in Every Alehouse and Tavern": Henry VIII Implores His Subjects to Put Aside Religious Differences (1545) -- 28. "My heart, Do Thine Office": The Execution of Scottish Reformer George Wishart (1546) -- 29. "We Will Have ... ": West Country Resistance to the New English Liturgy (1549) -- 30. "That Horrible Monster Jezebel": Scottish Reformer John Knox Denounces the Queen of England and the Rule of Women (1558) -- Catholic Reformation -- 31. "We Will Remain Unvanquished": Catholic Women Resist the Reformers, The Short Chronicle of Jeanne de Jussie (ca. 1534) -- 32. "Remember That You Are a Member of the Society of Jesus": The Work of the Jesuits in Europe and Without (1552,1597) -- 33. "One Day the Eyes of His Soul Were Opened": The Autobiography of St. Ignatius of Loyola (1555) -- 34. "Who Has Delivered Me from Myself": A Mystical Reformation, the Autobiography of Saint Teresa of Avila (1562) -- 35. "Scandals and Stumbling-Blocks of the Faithful": Decrees of the Council of Trent on Purgatory, Relics, Images, and Clerical Concubines (1563) -- Europe Divided, 1570-1600 -- 36. "They Threw the Body through the Window into the Courtyard": An Account of and Reactions to the Murder of French Protestants on St. Bartholomew's Day (1572) -- 37. "The Letters of a Deceitful and Hypocritical King": Religion and War in the Netherlands (1580),1581) -- 38. "Unless He Consent and Subscribe to These Articles Following": Archbishop John Whitgift's Articles for Uncovering Anglican Ministers of Presbyterian Inclination (1583) -- 39. "The Wicked and Dangerous Practices of Seditious Sectaries": Dissenting from the English Via Media, Jesuits and Puritans (1585, 1593) -- 40. "Obliterated and Forgotten, As If No Such Things Had Ever Happened": The Edict of Nantes, Ending the Wars of Religion in France (1598) -- Biographical Sketches of Important Individuals Mentioned in Text -- Glossary of Terms Mentioned in Text -- Comparison of Catholic and Protestant Positions of Key Doctrines -- Sixteenth-Century Monarchs and Popes.
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