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Reformation: Age of Turmoil

HIST 303 | University Course

Sixteenth-century religious upheaval; ideological, cultural, political, and socioeconomic struggles to mid-seventeenth century.

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1: Introduction to the Course
2: The Medieval Church
3: Reformation Background and Context
4: Martin Luther: The Reformation Begins
5: The Reformation Spreads
6: The Peasants’ War
7: The Radical Reformation
8: Calvin and Reformed Protestantism
9: The Huguenots and the French Wars of Religion
10: The Reformation in England and Scotland
11: The Catholic Reformation
12: The Inquisition and Spain during the Age of Reformation
13: Confessionalization
14: Women, Gender Roles, and the Reformation
15: The Thirty Years War (1618-1648)
16: Reformation Legacies

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The Protestant Reformation (Required) by: Hans J. Hillerbrand ISBN: 9780061148477 2009 Perennial	Used: $12.75 Rental: $4.99 New: $16.99		New from $9.97 Used from $1.35	Borrow
The Reformation: A History. (Required) by: Diarmaid MacCulloch ISBN: 9780143035381 2005 Penguin Publishing Group	Used: $19.50 Rental: $7.99 New: $26.00	Purchase from: $7.99	New from $30.41	Borrow
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A Bishop’s Tale: Mathias Hovius Among His Flock in Seventeenth-Century Flanders by: Craig Harline and Eddy F. Put ISBN: 9780300094053 2002 Yale University Press	Used: $24.00 New: $32.00		Used from $3.13 New from $15.99	Borrow
Divided by Faith: Religious Conflict and the Practice of Toleration in Early Modern Europe by: Benjamin J Kaplan ISBN: 9780674034730 2010 Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press	New: $25.00 Rental: $5.99	Purchase from: $27.00	New from $25.98 Collectible from $20.00 Used from $5.53	Borrow
Kepler’s Witch: An Astronomer’s Discovery of Cosmic Order Amid Religious War, Political Intrigue, and the Heresy Trial of His Mother by: James A. Connor ISBN: 9780060750497 2005 HarperOne		Purchase from: $8.38	Collectible from $12.00 Used from $4.49 New from $9.59	Borrow
The Burdens of Sister Margaret: Inside a Seventeenth-Century Convent by: Craig Harline ISBN: 9780300081213 2000 Yale University Press	Used: $21.75 New: $29.00	Purchase from: $12.95 Rental from: $12.95	New from $10.99	Borrow
The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village. by: Eamon Duffy ISBN: 9780300091854 2001 Yale University Press		Purchase from: $16.00 Rental from: $16.00	Used from $2.04 Collectible from $12.22 New from $15.48	Borrow

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