HIST 613 The Reformation

Examines current scholarship on such topics as the state of religion on the eve of the Reformation, Luther, the Peasants' War, diffusion of Reformation ideas (printing, sermons, art, etc.), Reformation in the German cities, origins of Anabaptism, Evangelism in Italy, the role of civil government in the English Reformation, women, Jews, witch-craze, and the effects of the Reformation.