History 4110

Seminar in Mediaeval History: Religion and Society in
Mediaeval Europe


Wednesdays 2.30-5.20 pm
Hart Hall #303

Spring Syllabus

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Giotto, St. Clare mourning St. Francis, c.1300'
San Francesco, Assisi

 

An asterisk, *, in supplementary lists below, indicates books, articles, etc., in my possession that you are welcome to borrow. Remember that the Mount Allison Library online catalog is unreliable for materials acquired before 1980. Consult the card catalog as well.

 

 


PART II: THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES: RELIGION AND URBAN LIFE


 

 

January 10, Commercial expansion and the reinvigoration of town life

J. Kirshner, K Morrison, eds. University of Chicago readings in western civilization, v. 4: medieval Europe, 86-104, 314-317, miscellany of documents on urban life [on reserve]
J. Shinners, ed., Medieval popular religion, 1000-1500: a reader, 391-394, description of the construction of Chartres Cathedral (1145) [on reserve]
The Count of Toul asserts jurisdiction over the city of Toul, 1069
An account of a communal revolt at Laon, 1115
From the Life of St. Goderic [please skim later version of Life of St. Goderic in M-A. Stouck, ed., Medieval saints: a reader, 412-436 for comparison purposes]

L.K. Little, Religious poverty and the profit economy . . . , 3–41 [on reserve]

Supplementary bibliography:

D. Abulafia, et al., eds. Church and city, 1000-1500: essays in honor of Christopher Brooke, New York, 1992 [BR 252 C538 1992]
J.W. Baldwin, Medieval theories of the just price, Philadelphia, 1959
J.W. Baldwin, Masters, merchants and princes, 2v., Princeton, 1970
M.V. Clarke, The medieval city-state, London, 1926
R. Fleming, 'Rural elites and urban communities in late Saxon England', Past and present, 141 (1993), 13-37 [D 1 .P29 Ser]
J. Gilchrist, The church and economic activity in the middle ages,New York, 1969 [BR 115 E3 G5 1969]
D. Herlihy, Opera muliebra: women's work in medieval Europe, New York, 1990
R.H. Hilton, English and French towns in feudal society: a comparative study, Cambridge, 1995 [HT 115 H55 1995]
R. Holt & G. Rosser, The medieval town: a reader in English urban history, New York, 1990 [HT 115 E54 1990]
D. Hughes, 'Urban growth and family structure in medieval Genoa', Past & present, 66 (1974), 3-28 [D 1 .P29 Ser]
H. Miskimin, et al., eds., The medieval city, New Haven, 1977 [HT 115 .M38]
M. Mollat, The poor in the middle ages, New Haven, 1978 [HN 11 M6413 1986]
J. H. Mundy, The medieval town, Princeton, 1958 [HT 115 . M96]
B.N. Nelson, The ideal of usury, Princeton, 1949
J.T. Noonan, The scholastic analysis of usury, Cambridge, 1957
P. Spufford, Money and its uses in medieval Europe, Cambridge, 1987
F. Rorig, The medieval town, Berkeley, 1957 [HT 115. R613]
J. Schofield & A. Vince, Medieval towns, London, 1994 [DA 90 .S36 1994]
J.W. Thompson, Economic and social history of the middle ages, 2 v., New York, 1959 [D 117 .T5 1959]

January 17, New monastic orders and the 'evangelical awakening'

Jacobus de Voragine, The golden legend, ii, 98-107, Life of St. Bernard of Clairvaux [on reserve]
P. Geary, Readings in Medieval History, 3e, Peterborough, Ont., 2003, 350–359, from St. Bernard's Sermons on the Song of Songs [on reserve]
M.-A. Stouck, ed., Medieval saints: a reader, 307-312, on the pilgrimage of Saewulf to the Holy Land [on reserve]
M.-A. Stouck, 436-452, Life of Christina the Astonishing [on reserve]
J. Shinners, ed., Medieval popular religion, 1000-1500: a reader,76-88, Pseudo-Bonaventure, from Meditations on the life of Christ [on reserve]

L.K Little, Religious poverty and the profit economy . . . ,59-96 [on reserve]
A. Vauchez, The laity in the middle ages, 51-72 [on reserve]


Recommended:
John Cassian (†432), Conference #1, On the aim of the cenobite and the hermit

Supplementary bibliography:

M.-D. Chenu, Nature, man, and society in the twelfh century, Toronto, 1997 [BT 26 .C513 1997]
C.W. Bynum, Jesus as mother: studies in the spirituality of the high middle ages, Berkeley, 1982, 170-262 [BV 4490 B96 1982]
G. Constable, Medieval monasticism: a select bibliography, Toronto, 1976 [Z 7839 C8]
*G. Constable, 'The ideal of the imitation of Christ', in G. Constable, Three studies in medieval religious and social thought, Cambridge, 1995, 1-141
*G. Constable, 'The interpretation of Mary and Martha, in G. Constable, Three studies in medieval religious and social thought, Cambridge, 1995, 143-248
J. Leclercq, The love of learning and the desire for God, New York, 1961 [BX 2470 L413 1977]
H. Mayr-Harting, 'Functions of a twelfth-century recluse', History, 60 (1975), 337-352 [D 1 .H673 Ser]
C.M. Mooney & C.W. Bynum, eds., Gendered Voices: Medieval Saints and Their Interpreters, Philadelphia, 1999

January 24, Franciscans and Dominicans

M.-A. Stouck, ed., Medieval saints: a reader, 470-87, Thomas of Celano's (first) Life of St. Francis [special attention to 470-478] [on reserve]
M.-A. Stouck, 488-496, from The little flowers of St. Francis
M.-A. Stouck, 504-507, Canticle of brother sun
J. Kirshner, K. Morrison, eds., University of. Chicago readings in western civilization, 279-281, Raymond of Penafort, from Constitutions of the Dominican Order [on reserve]
J. Kirshner, K. Morrison, 281-289, St. Francis, Rule & Testament
J. Kirshner, K. Morrison, 318-325, Peter John Olivi, O.F.M., from Quodlibets, On usury
P. Geary, Readings in Medieval History, 3e, Peterborough, Ont., 2003, 474–477:Testament of St. Clare of Assisi [on reserve]
P. Geary, Readings in Medieval History, 3e, Peterborough, Ont., 2003, 490–492, Thomas of Cantimpre defends the mendicants orders
Jordan of Saxony, O.P. Lives of the brethren of the Order of Preachers 1206-1259

L.K. Little, Religious Poverty and the Profit Economy . . . , 99-112, 146-183

Supplementary bibliography:

J.W. Baldwin, Medieval theories of the just price, Philadelphia, 1959
J.W. Baldwin, Masters, merchants and princes, 2v., Princeton, 1970
R. Brooke, 'The lives of St. Francis of Assisi', in Latin biography, ed. T.A. Dorey, London, 1967, 177-198
J. Gilchrist, The church and economic activity in the middle ages,New York, 1969 [BR 115 E3 G5 1969]
H. Grundmann, Religious movements in the middle ages: the historical links between heresy, the mendicant orders, and the women's religious movement in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, Notre Dame, 1995 [BR 270 .G713 1995]
D.R. Lesnick, Preaching in medieval Florence: the social world of Franciscan and Dominican spirituality, Athens, Ga., 1989
B.N. Nelson, The ideal of usury, Princeton, 1949
J.T. Noonan, The scholastic analysis of usury, Cambridge, 1957
P. Spufford, Money and its uses in medieval Europe, Cambridge, 1987

January 31, Lay urban religious life

J. Shinners, ed., Medieval popular religion: a reader, 6-12, selected canons of the Fourth Lateran Council (1215) [on reserve]
J. Shinners, 16-20, William of Pagula, from Oculus sacerdotus
J. Shinners, 128-129, 14h century liturgical drama: the annunciation
J. Shinners, 293-299, Rule for Franciscan tertiaries
J. Shinners, 300-305, on two religious fraternities
J. Shinners, 407-417, Salimbene comments on the 'Great Alleluia'

L.K. Little, Religious poverty and the profit economy . . . , 184-217 [on reserve]
A. Vauchez, The laity in the middle ages, 95-106, 171-183 [on reserve]

Supplementary bibliography:

D. Abulafia, et al., eds. Church and city, 1000-1500: essays in honor of Christopher Brooke, New York, 1992 [BR 252 C538 1992]
M. Aston, Faith and fire: popular and unpopular religion, 1350-1600, London, 1993
J.R. Banker, Death in the community: memorialization and confraternities in an italian commune in the late middle ages, Athens, Ga., 1988
C.M. Banker, 'The parish fraternities of medieval London', in The church in pre–Reformation society: essays in honour of F.R.H. du Boulay, ed. C.M. Barron & C. Harper-Bill, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1985, 13-37
J. Bossy, 'The mass as a social institution, 1200-1700', Past and present, 100 (1983), 29-61 [D 1 .P29 SER]
*L.E. Boyle, 'The Fourth Lateran Council and manuals of popular theology', in The popular literature of medieval England, ed. T.J. Heffernan, Knoxville, Tenn., 1985, 30-43
R. & C. Brooke, Popular religion in the middle ages: western Europe, 1000-1300, London, 1984
D.A. Brown, 'The Allelulia: a thirtenth-century peace movement', Archivum franciscanum historicum, 81 (1988), 3-16
S.K. Cohn, The cult of remembrance and the Black Death: six Renaissance cities in central Italy, Baltimore, 1997 [HN 475 .C59 1997]
D.A. Eltis, 'Tensions between clergy and laity in some western German cities in the later middle ages', Journal of ecclesiastical history, 43 (1992), 231-248 [BR 140 .J86 SER]
R.C. Finucane, Miracles and pilgrims: popular beliefs in medieval England, London, 1977 [BR 747 .F56 1977]
G.McM. Gibson, The theater of devotion: East Anglian drama and society in the late middle ages, Chicago, 1989 [PR 644 E28 G53 1994]
H. Grundmann, Religious movements in the middle ages: the historical links between heresy, the mendicant orders, and the women's religious movement in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, Notre Dame, 1995 [BR 270 .G713 1995]
A. Gurevich, Medieval popular culture: problems of belief and perception, Cambridge, 1988
J. Henderson, 'Confraternities and the church in late medieval Florence', Studies in church history, 23 (1986), 69-83
J. Henderson, 'The parish and the poor in Florence at the time of the Black Death: the case of S. Frediano', Continuity and change, 3 (1988), 247-272
H.C. Lea, A history of auricular confession and indulgences in the Latin church, Philadelphia, 1896
D.R. Lesnick, Preaching in medieval Florence: the social world of Franciscan and Dominican spirituality, Athens, Ga., 1989
A. Murray, 'Piety and impiety in thirteenth-century Italy', Studies in church history, 8 (1972), 83-106
A. Murray, 'Religion among the poor in thirteenth-century France: the testimony of Humbert of Romans', Traditio, 30 (1974), 285-324
D. Romano, 'Charity and community in early Renaissance Venice', Journal of urban history, 11 (1984), 63-81 [HT 101 .J6 SER]
K.T. Utterback, 'Worship in the church of your choice? Church attendance in mid-fourteenth century Barcelona', Journal of medieval history, 17 (1991), 245-253

February 7, Heresy

P. Geary, Readings in Medieval History, 3e, Peterborough, Ont., 2003, 445–446, IV Lateran Council, canon #3: On heresy
J. Kirshner, K. Morrison, eds., University of. Chicago readings in western civilization, 258-261, documents on Waldensians [on reserve]
J. Kirshner, K. Morrison, 304-312, Bernardo Gui, from Manual of the Inquisitor
E. Peters, ed., Heresy and authority in medieval Europe, 117-137, miscellany of documents pertaining to Cathars [on reserve]
E. Peters, 144-163, miscellany of documents pertaining to Waldensians
J.B. Ross & M.M. McLaughlin, The portable medieval reader, 338-334, Two accounts of career of Arnold of Brescia [on reserve]
J. Shinners, ed., Medieval popular religion: a reader, 238-241, on the inquisition of witches at Toulouse [on reserve]

L.K. Little, Religious poverty and the profit economy . . . , 113-145
R.I. Moore, The formation of a persecuting society, 66-99 [on reserve]

Supplementary bibliography:

P. Biller & A. Hudson, eds. Heresy and literacy, 1000-1530, Cambridge, 1994 [BT 1319 . H47 1994]
C-P. Clasen, 'Medieval heresies in the Reformation', Church history, 32 (1963), 392-414
M. Costan, The Cathars and the Albigensian Crusade, Manchester, 1997 [BX 4891.2 .C67 1997]
H. Fichtenau, Heretics and scholars in the high middle ages, 1000-1200, University Park, Penna., 1998 [BT 1319 .F5313 1999]
H. Grundmann, Religious movements in the middle ages: the historical links between heresy, the mendicant orders, and the women's religious movement in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, Notre Dame, 1995 [BR 270 .G713 1995]
Guillaume de Tudela, The song of the Cathar wars: a history of the Albigensian Crusade [PC 3340 .G84 C413 1996]
N.J. Housley, 'Politics and heresy in Italy: anti-heretical crusades, orders, and confraternities, 1200-1500', Journal of ecclesiastical history, 33 (1982), 193-208
M. Lambert, Medieval heresy: popular movements from the Gregorian Reform to the Reformation, 3e, Oxford, 2002 [BT 1319 .L35 2002]
M. Lambert, The Cathars, Oxford, 1998 [BX 4891.2 .L35 1998]
G. Leff, Heresy in the later middle ages: the relation of heterodoxy to dissent, c. 1250-c. 1450, 2v., Manchester, 1957
R.I. Moore, ed., The birth of popular heresy, Toronto, 1995 [BT 1319 B57 1995]
R.I. Moore, The formation of a persecuting society, 1990; rpnt. Oxford, 2000 [HN 380 .P6 M66 1990 ]
R. I. Moore, The origins of European dissent, Oxford, 1985 [BT 1319 M66 1985 c.1]
Peter de les Vaux-de-Cernay, The history of the Albigensian Crusade, Rochester, 1998 [BX 4890 .P3813 1998]
E. Peters, ed., Heresy and authority in medieval Europe: documents in translation, Philadelphia, 1980 [BT 1319 P47 c.1]
J.B. Russell, Dissent and reform in the early middle ages, Berkeley, 1965 [BT 1315.2 R8]
W.L. Wakefield, 'Some unorthodox popular ideas in the thirteenth century', Mediaevalia et humanistica, n.s., 4 (1973), 25-35 [D 111 .M5 v.4]
W.L. Wakefield & A.P. Evans, eds., Heresies of the high middle ages, New York, 1969
S. Wessley, 'The thirteenth-century Guglielmites: salvation through women', in Medieval women, ed. D. Baker, Oxford, 1978, 289-303 [HQ 1143 M43 1978]

 


PART III: THE LATER MIDDLE AGES: DEVOTION, DISSENT, AND THE HOPE OF REFORM


 

 

February 14, Turning inward: mysticism and devotion

M. Furlong, Visions and longings: medieval women mystics, 189-205, 236-246, Julian of Norwich, Showings, extracts [on reserve]
P. Geary, Readings in Medieval History, 3e, Peterborough, Ont., 2003, 444–445, IV Lateran Council, canon #2 [condemnation of Joachim of Fiore]
P. Geary, Readings in Medieval History, 3e, Peterborough, Ont., 2003, 567–583, The book of Margery Kempe, I, chapters 1-20 [on reserve]
B. McGinn, ed., Visions of the end: apocalyptic traditions in the middle ages, 126-141, miscellany from writings of Joachim of Fiore [on reserve]
J.B. Ross & M.M. McLaughlin, The portable medieval reader, 682-687, Nicholas of Cusa, from The vision of God [on reserve]
J. Shinners, ed., Medieval popular religion: a reader, 100-104, Catherine of Sienna, Letter to Ristoro Canigiani on the eucharist [on reserve]
J. Shinners, 326-332, 'Geert Grote preaches the modern devotion'
J. Shinners, 332-334, 'A spiritual regimen for a fifteenth-century gentleman'
J. Shinners, 418-437, 'Pious responses to the Black Death at Tournai'
J. Shinners, 525-536, from The art of dying well

F. Oakley, The western church, 80-130 [on reserve]
A. Vauchez, The laity in the middle ages, 231-242 [on reserve]

Supplementary bibliography:

M.W. Bloomfield, 'Joachim of Flora: a critical survey of his canon, teachings, sources, biography and influence', Traditio 13 (1957), 248-311
St. Bridget of Sweden, The liber celestis of St. Bridget of Sweden, Oxford, 1987 [PR 1119 A2 v. 291]
C.W. Bynum, 'Women mystics in the thirteenth century: the case of the nuns of Helfta', in C.W. Bynum, Jesus as mother: studies in the spirituality of the high middle ages, Berkeley, 1982, 170-262
*G. Constable, 'The popularity of twelfth-century spiritual writers in the late middle ages', in Renaissance studies in honor of Hans Baron, ed. A. Molho & J.A. Tedeschi, Florence, Ill., 1971, 5-28
O. Davis, God within: the mystical tradition in northern Europe, London, 1988
J. Delumeau, Sin and fear: the emergence of a western guilt culture, 13th-18th centuries, New York, 1990 [BT 715 D443 1990]
D.A. Eltis, 'Tensions between clergy and laity in some western German cities in the later middle ages', Journal of ecclesiastical history, 43 (1992), 231-248 [BR 140 .J86 SER]
R.K. Emmerson, Antichrist in the middle ages: a study in medieval apocalypticism, art, and literature, Seattle, 1981 [BT 985 E46 1981]
R.K. Emmerson & B. McGinn, eds., The apocalypse in the middle ages, Ithaca, 1992 [BS 2825.2 .A833]
R. Kieckhefer, 'Holiness and the culture of devotion: remarks on some late medieval male saints', in Images of sainthood in medieval Europe, ed. R. Blumenthal-Kosinski & T. Szell, Ithaca & London, 1991, 288-305
*R. Kieckhefer, Unquiet souls: fourteenth-century saints and their religious milieu, Chicago, 1984
A.M. Kleinberg, Prophets in their own country: living saints and the making of sainthood in the late middle ages, Chicago, 1992
R.E. Lerner, 'The image of mixed liquids in late medieval mystical thought', Church history, 40 (1971), 397-411 [BR 140 .C5 SER]
M. Maeterlinck, Ruysbroeck and the mystics, with selections from Ruysbroeck, London, 1894 [B 765 .R8 Z7 M2]
C. McCurry, 'Religious careers and religious devotion in thirteenth-century Metz', Viator, 9 (1978), 325-333 [CB 351 .V5 SER]
E.W. McDonnell, The beguines and beghards in medieval culture, with special emphasis on the Belgian scene, New Brunswick, NJ, 1954
B. McGinn, Antichrist: two thousand years of the human fascination with evil, San Francisco, 1994 [BT 985 .M29 1994]
B. McGinn, Apocalyptic spirituality, New York, 1979 [BT 885 .6513 1979]
B. McGinn, The encyclopedia of apocalypticism, New York, 1998 [BL 501 .E53 1998 v.1-3 REFERENCE]
B. McGinn, The flowering of mysticism: men and women in the new mysticism (1200-1350), New York, 1998 [BV 5075 .M37 1994 v.3]
B. McGinn, The foundations of mysticism, New York, 1991 [BV 5075 .M37 1991 v.1]
B. McGinn, The growth of mysticism, New York, 1994 [BV 5075 .M37 1991 v.2]
B. Moeller, 'Religious life in Germany on the eve of the Reformation', in Pre-Reformation Germany, ed. G. Strauss, London, 1972, 13-42
C.M. Mooney & C.W. Bynum, eds., Gendered Voices: Medieval Saints and Their Interpreters, Philadelphia, 1999
W.A. Pantin, 'Instructions for a devout and literate layman', in Medieval learning and literature: essays presented to Richard William Hunt, ed. J.J.G. Alexander and M.T. Gibson, Oxford, 1976, 398-422 [AZ 321 .A4]
R.W. Pfaff, New liturgical feasts in later medieval England, Oxford, 1970
R.R. Post, The modern devotion: confrontation with Reformation and humanism, Leiden, 1968
M. Reeves, Joachim of Fiore and the prophetic future, rev. ed., Stroud, 1999 [BX 4705 .J6 R43 1999]
M. Reeves & B. Hirsch-Reich, The figurae of Joachim of Fiore, Oxford, 1972 [BV 150 .J63 R4]
M. Reeves, The influence of prophecy in the later middle ages: a study in Joachimism, Oxford, 1969
Richard Rolle, Richard Rolle: prose and verse, Oxford, 1988 [PR 1119 A2 v.293]
P. Szarmch, ed., An introduction to the medieval mystics of Europe, Albany, NY, 1984
E. Underhill, Mysticism: a study in the nature and development of men's spiritual consciousness, New York, 1955 [BV 5091 U55 1955]
E. Underhill, The mystics of the church, London, 1925 [BV 5075 U6 1925]
C. Zika, 'Hosts, processions, and pilgrimages in fifteenth-century Germany', Past and present, 118 (1988), 25-64 [D1 .P29 SER]

February 28, Challenges to papal government of the church: exile, schism, conciliarism

K. Bartlett & M. McGlynn, eds., Humanism and the northern Renaissance, 3-18, from Guillaume Fillastre's 'Diary of the Council of Constance' [on reserve]
C.M.D. Crowder, ed., Unity, heresy, and reform, 1378-1460: the conciliar response to the Great Schism, 76-82, from Jean Gerson's sermon, Ambulate (1415) [on reserve]
C.M.D. Crowder, 82-83, Decree of the Council of Constance, Haec sancta (1415)
C.
M.D. Crowder, 126-128, Sentence of deposition pronounced by Council of Constance against Benedict XIII (1417)
C.M.D. Crowder, 128-129, Decree of the Council of Constance, Frequens (1417)
J. Kirshner, K. Morrison, eds., University of Chicago readings in western civilization, 380-382, 424-446 miscellaneous documents on the Avignon papacy and the Great Schism [on reserve]
B. McGinn, ed., Visions of the end, 186-195, miscellany on expectation of an angelic pope
B. McGinn, ed., Visions of the end, 253-258, on the Great Schism and prophecy
J.B. Ross & M.M. McLaughlin, The portable medieval reader, 378-384, Giovanni Villani on Pope Boniface VIII and the 'humiliation at Anagni' [on reserve]
B.Tierney, ed., The crisis of church and state, 1050-1300, 139-149, miscellany of documents on contest between Frederick II and the papacy
Petrarch, Letter criticizing the Avignon Papacy (c. 1350)

F. Oakley, The western church in the later middle ages, 23-79 [on reserve]

Supplementary bibliography:

G. Barraclough, Papal provisions, Oxford, 1935
H.G.J. Beck, 'William of Hundleby's account of the Anagni outrage', Catholic historical review, 32 (1946-47), 190-220
H. Kaminsky, A history of the Hussite revolution, Berkeley, 1967
G. Leff, Heresy in the later middle ages: the relation of heterodoxy to dissent, c. 1250-c. 1450, 2v., Manchester, 1957
J. Lortz, How the Reformation came, New York, 1964
J. Loserth, Wiclif and Hus, London, 1884
W.E. Lunt, Financial relations of the papacy with England, 1327-1534, 2v., Cambridge,Mass., 1962
W.E. Lunt, Papal revenues in the middle ages, 2v., New York, 1934 [BX 1950 .L8 1965]
M. McKisack, The fourteenth century: 1307-1399, Oxford, 1959 [DA 225 .M15]
M. Mollat, The popes at Avignon (1305-1378), New York, 1963
[BX 1300 .M613]
J.H. Mundy & K.M. Woody, The Council of Constance, New York, 1961
F. Oakley, Council over pope: towards a provisional ecclesiology, New York, 1969
F. Oakley, 'Pierre d'Ailly and papal infallibility', Medieval Studies, 26 (1964), 353-358 [D 111 .M48 SER]
W.A. Pantin, The English church in the fourteenth century, Cambridge, 1955 [BR 750 P3 1980]
P. Partner, The papal state under Martin V, London, 1958
Y. Renouard, The Avignon papacy: 1305-1403, Hamden, Conn., 1970
M. Spinka, ed., Advocates of reform: from Wyclif to Erasmus, London, 1958
M. Spinka, ed., Jan Hus at the Council of Constance, New York, 1965
M. Spinka, John Hus: a biography, Princeton, 1968
B. Tierney, Foundations of the conciliar theory, Cambridge, 1955
B. Tierney, Origins of papal infallibility, Leiden, 1972
W. Ullmann, Origins of the Great Schism, London, 1949 [BX 1301 .U55]
M.J. Wilks, The problem of sovereignty in the later middle ages, Cambridge, 1963

March 7, Religious reform and its challenges

K. Bartlett & M. McGlynn, eds., Humanism and the northern Renaissance, 19-31, Peter of Mladonovice, 'The end of the saintly and reverend John Hus' [on reserve]
K. Bartlett & M. McGlynn, 115-126, Erasmus, from A pilgrimage for religion's sake
C.M.D. Crowder, ed., Unity, heresy, and reform, 1378-1460: the conciliar response to the Great Schism, 152-156, proposals for reform submitted to the Council of Basel (1432) [on reserve]
C.M.D. Crowder, 179-180, Pius II, decree: Execrabilis (1460)
B. McGinn, ed., Visions of the end, 246-252, miscellany of political prophecies
B. McGinn, ed., Visions of the end, 270-276, on prophecy in Germany in 15h century
J.B. Ross & M.M. McLaughlin, The portable medieval reader, 67-71, Johann Busch comments on attempts at monastic reform in the 15h century [on reserve]
J.B. Ross & M.M. McLaughlin, 195-202, William Langland, from Piers plowman [on reserve]
J.B. Ross & M.M. McLaughlin, 311-318, 'A plea for the reform of Germany'[on reserve]
J.C. Olin, ed., Christian humanism and the Reformation: selected writings of Erasmus, New York, 1987, 109-129, Erasmus, Letter to Paul Volz [on reserve]

Oakley, The western church, 213-257 [on reserve]

Supplementary bibliography:

M. Aston & C. Richmond, Lollardy and the gentry in the later middle ages, New York, 1997 [BX 4901.1 .L65 1997]
C. Augustijn, Erasmus: his life, works, and influence, Toronto, 1991 [B 785 E64 A913 1991]
R. Bainton, Erasmus of Christendom, London, 1970 [B 785 .E64 B3]
L.G. Duggan, 'The unresponsiveness of the late medieval church: a reconsideration', Sixteenth-century journal 9 (1978), 3-26
A. Fox, 'Facts and fallacies: reinterpreting English humanism', in Reassessing the Henrician Age: humanism, politics, and reform, 1500-1550, ed. A. Fox & J. Guy, Oxford, 1986, 9-33
A. Franzen, 'The Council of Constance: present state of the problem', Concilium 7 (1965), 29-68
A. Goodman & A. MacKay, eds., The impact of humanism on western Europe, London, 1990 [B 778 I46 1989]
S.H. Hendrix, 'In quest of the vera ecclesia: the crises of late medieval ecclesiology', Viator 7 (1976), 347-378 [CB 351 .V5 SER]
E.F. Jacob, 'Christian humanism', in Europe in the late middle ages, ed. J. Hale, R. Highfield, & B. Smalley, London, 1965, 437-465
H. Kaminsky, 'Chiliasm and the Hussite revolution', in Change in medieval society, ed. S. Thrupp, New York, 1964, 249-278 [CB 351 T55 1988]
H. Kaminsky, A history of the Hussite revolution, Berkeley, 1967
G. Leff, Heresy in the later middle ages: the relation of heterodoxy to dissent, c. 1250-c. 1450, 2v., Manchester, 1957
R.E. Lerner, 'Medieval prophecy and religious dissent', Past and Present, 72 (1976), 3-24
J. Lortz, How the Reformation came, New York, 1964
F. Oakley, 'Almain and Major: conciliar theory on the eve of the Reformation', American Historical Review, 70 (1965), 673-690
F. Oakley, 'Conciliarism in the sixteenth century: Jacques Almain again', Archiv fur Reformationsgeschichte, 68 (1977), 111-132
F. Oakley, Council over pope: towards a provisional ecclesiology, New York, 1969
F. Oakley, 'Pierre d'Ailly and papal infallibility', Medieval Studies, 26 (1964), 353-358 [D 111 .M48 SER]
H.A. Oberman, ed., Forerunners of the Reformation: the shape of late medieval thought, New York, 1966
J.C. Olin, ed., Christian humanism and the Reformation: selected writings of Erasmus, 3e, New York, 1987 [BR 350 .E7 A4 1987]
S.E. Ozment, ed., The Reformation in medieval perspective, Chicago, 1971 [BR 309 O93]
P. Partner, The papal state under Martin V, London, 1958
*D. Sullivan, 'Nicholas of Cusa as a reformer: the papal legation to the Germanies, 1451-1452', Medieval studies, 36 (1974), 382-428 [D 111 .M48 SER]
J.A.F. Thomson, The later Lollards: 1414-1520, Oxford, 1965
J.A.F. Thomson, Popes and princes, 1417-1519, London, 1980 [BX 1270 T48]
P.E. Tillinghast, 'An aborted Reformation: Germany and the papacy in the mid-fifteenth century', Journal of medieval history, 2 (1976), 57-79
J.D. Tracy, Erasmus of the Low Countries, Berkeley, 1996 [B 785 .E64 T73 1996]
C. Trinkhaus, 'In our image and likeness': humanity and divinity in Italian humanist thought, 2v., London, 1970 [B 821 .T7 v.1-2]
K. Ullmann, Reformers before the Reformation, 2v., Edinburgh, 1855
D. Weinstein, Savonarola and Florence: prophecy and patriotism in the Renaissance, Princeton, 1970 [DG 737.97 .W4]

March 14, No seminar

March 21, Presentations of essays

March 28, Presentations of essays

April 4, Presentations of essays

April 11, Essays due by 5 pm.

 

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