Thursday, December 1, 2016

Religious Reform and Warfare, 1500-1648 (Protestant Reformation, Wars, Catholic Reforms, Witchcraft trials, Thirty-years War



Chapter 11: “Alone Before God”: Religious Reform and Warfare, 1500-1648
THE CLASH OF DYNASTIES, 1515-1555
·         Land-Hungry Monarchs
o    Charles V (son of Ferdinand & Isabella) Habsburg Dynasty (multinational)
o    Ottoman-Turk expansion along their northwest boarder with the Habsburgs (into modern-day Austria)
·         Changing Rules of Warfare
o    Growing armies: more men for long lines of muskets & pikes
o    Guns lead to change in military tactics
·         Winners and Losers
o    Casualties of war
§  Martin Guerre (1524-1594) peasant, soldier, and reluctant family man
·         Habsburg-Valois Wars, 1521-1544
o    Weary imperialism
o    Valois Lands (modern-day France) fought with Habsburgs along eastern boarder= 1526 Habsburg-Valois Wars (map 11.1)
TIDE OF RELIGIOUS REFORM
·         Best Path to Salvation?
o    Devotio moderna (modern devotion)
§  Thomas a Kempis (1380-1471) wrote The Imitation of Christ: Catholic devotional book first written in Latin
o    Catholic’s seven sacraments: Baptism, Confirmation, Matrimony, Eucharist, Penance, Holy Orders and the Anointing of the Sick.
§  1215 Fourth Lateran Council: no salvation outside of the (Catholic) church
·         Desiderius Erasmus: “Prince of Humanists”
·         Luther’s Revolution   
o    Martin Luther (1483-1546)
o    Attack on indulgences
§  Purgatory:
o    95 Theses posted on the door of Catholic church in Wittenberg, Germany
·         Protestant Religious Ideas
o    Priesthood of all believers
§  iconoclasm
§  transubstantiation
·         “Germans Rage Against Papal Exploitation, two document excerpts, Doc 11.1
·         Reformed Church takes root in Germany
o    Peasants’ war
o    Peace of Augsburg
·         Bringing Reform to the States in Switzerland
o    Ulrich Zwingli (1484-1531)
·         Anabaptists: Radical Reformers
o    Church vs. State
o    Radical Reformers
·         Calvinism and the Growing Middle Class
o    Predestination
o    Spread of Calvinism
§  Huguenots
§  The Scot, John Knox (1514-1572)
·         Marie Dentiere defends Reformation women’s rights (doc. 11.2)
·         Henry VIII and the English Church
o    Seeking a male heir
o    Henry’s marriages
§  THE SIX WIVES OF KING HENRY VIII: Katharine of Aragon - Anne Boleyn - Jane Seymour - Anne of Cleves - Catherine Howard - Katharine Parr
o    Church of England
§  Thomas More (1478-1535)
o    Youthful son, Edward VI, dies
o    Lady Jane Grey, The Nine Day Queen 5
o    “Bloody Mary” (Catholic)
o    Elizabeth I (Protestant)
o    Tudor Dynasty lasted 118 years
o    Scotland’s Church
o    Europe divided
THE CATHOLIC REFORMATION
o    Stirring of Reform in Spain
§  Ferdinand and Isabella
§  Married; thus united Leon-Castile and Argon
§  Reduced the power of the nobility; centralized power
§  1492 sponsored Christopher Columbus’ voyage
o    Cardinal Ximenez
§  With permission he founded a new university at Alcala de Henares
§  Published Complutensian Polyyglot Bible (1520)
§  Three columns comparing Hebrew, Greek, and Latin
·         The Society of Jesus
o    Founded by Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
o    Argued for education as a solution (doc. 11.3)
o    Baroque art
·         The Council of Trent, 1545-1563
o    Reforming corruption
o    Affirming doctrine
o    El Greco, painter, like Rubens reaffirmed Catholicism
o    Scripture and tradition
·         Catholics on the Offensive
o    Philip II (r. 1556-1588
EUROPE ERUPTS AGAIN A CENTURY OF RELIGIOUS WARFARE, 1559-1648
·         French Wars of Religion, 1562-1598
o    Catholics vs. Huguenots
o    Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre
·         A “Council of Blood’ in the Netherlands, 1566-1609
o    Revolt breaks out
o    Armada against England
§  The “Protestant wind”
o    Netherlands split
·         The Thirty Years’ War, 1618-1648
o    War breaks out
o    Wallenstein
o    From religion to politics
o    Devastation
·         Peace of Westphalia
o    Political results
LIFE AFTER THE REFORMATION
·         New Definitions of Courtship and marriage
o    Courtship
o    Marriage
·         Forging a Link Between Education and Work
o    Valuing literacy
o    Valuing work
·         Anxiety and Spiritual Insecurity
o    Charitable institutions
o    Decline of “magic”
·         Searching for Scapegoats: the Hunt for Witches
o    Fear of the Devil
o    Persecutions


Endnotes on Renaissance:
        Sherman & Salisbury. The West in the World.
2     study questions, then take the quizzes, email results http://glencoe.mheducation.com/sites/0021438374/student_view0/chapter11/chapter_summaries.html    
3                           Primary source investigator from McGraw Hill Education http://psi.mhhe.com/current/psi.php?editionId=52
4                           Sherman & Salisbury. The West in the World. ed. 1. Chapter 11: “Alone Before God”: Religious Reform and Warfare, 1500-1648.  McGraw Hill Education. http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/history/west/sherman/student/olc/chap11outline.mhtml (outline with primary source links).
5                           The Nine Day Queen. https://englishhistory.net/tudor/relative/lady-jane-grey/

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