This advanced colloquium explores the transformed religious landscape of sixteenth-century Europe from an interdisciplinary perspective. Two professors, one from History and one from Religious Studies, contextualize the key theological and social aspects of the sixteenth-century reformations and provide a general introduction to the study of the reformation era. Students will read primary writings and documents from major reformers and reform movements and gain an overview of secondary scholarship in select classic studies of the period and in recent literature. Undergraduates register for HISTORY RELIGST 231G or RELIGST RELIGST 231 for 5 units; graduate students register for HISTORY RELIGST 331G or RELIGST RELIGST 331 for 3-5 units.
3-5 units · Letter or Credit/No Credit
This advanced colloquium explores the transformed religious landscape of sixteenth-century Europe from an interdisciplinary perspective. Two professors, one from History and one from Religious Studies, contextualize the key theological and social aspects of the sixteenth-century reformations and provide a general introduction to the study of the reformation era. Students will read primary writings and documents from major reformers and reform movements and gain an overview of secondary scholarship in select classic studies of the period and in recent literature. Undergraduates register for HISTORY 231G or RELIGST 231 for 5 units; graduate students register for HISTORY 331G or RELIGST 331 for 3-5 units.