THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES HIST 613A; TRS 727D; TRS 420 The Catholic Reformation 1320-1540 Syllabus Credit Hours: 3 Prerequisites/ Department consent: none Classroom: Shahan 303 Thursdays 3:35-6:00 Instructor contact information: Nelson H. Minnich Mullen Library 320 and Caldwell 417 X 5079 and x5702 Minnich@cua.edu Office Hour: Tuesdays 2-3:00pm Course Description (from Cardinal Station http://cardinalstation.cua.edu) A study of ongoing reform efforts in the Church from the healing of the Great Western Schism to the organized Roman response to the Protestant Reformation, treating such topics as conciliarism, observantism, mysticism, popular preaching, confraternities, Devotio Moderna, Christian humanism, new religious orders, evangelism, missionary efforts, plus a survey of the Church in Germany, Spain, France, England, and Italy, and the initial papal responses to the Protestant challenge. Instructional Methods: Lectures and Discussion Required Text: None, but specific required readings Recommended Text: None Reading materials: Course Discussion Schedule (name of discussion leader in bold font following the date of the discussion): Terms "Catholic" and "Counter" Reformation; Church and State: Theory and Practice 9/7 Allison Ralph: O’Malley, John W. Trent and All That: Renaming Catholicism in the Early Modern Era (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000) BR 438 .O45 2000 Institutional Church Problems: Avignonese Papacy, Great Western Schism, Conciliarism 9/14: Jingfeng Zhang: Crowder, Christopher M.D. Unity, Heresy, and Reform, 1378-1460: The Conciliar Response to the Great Schism (New York, 1977), 41-177. Canon Law BX 733 .U5 Spinka, Matthew A., ed., Advocates of Reform from Wyclif to Erasmus (Philadelphia, 1953), 140-174. BQ 302 L69 vol. 14 Jared Vibbert: Disciplinary Decrees of the General Councils: Text, Translation, and Commentary by Henry Joseph Schroeder (St. Louis, 1937), 443-79. BV 11 S38 Enea Silvio Piccolomini (Pius II), De gestis Concilii Basiliensis Commentariorum libri II, ed. and trans. Denys Hay and W.K. Smith (Oxford, 1967), 3-187. BX 823 P69 D2 1967 Mainline Thinking: Scholasticism and Humanism 9/21: Ryan Lenz: The Renaissance Philosophy of Man, ed. Ernst Cassirer, Paul O. Kristeller, and John Randall (Chicago, 1948), 34, 46, 134-43. B 775 C34 1956 Marginal Thinking: Mysticism, Heresies, Prophecies 9/28: Patrick Rizzuto: Spinka, Advocates of Reform, 32-88, 196-278. Religion of the Laity: Preachers, Popular Piety, Confraternities 10/3: Minnich: Origo, Iris. The World of San Bernardino (New York, 1962), 28-42, 131-57. BQ 6429 .069 .W9 Katya Mouris: 2 Terpstra, Nicolas. “Ignatius, Confratello, Confraternities as Modes of Spiritual Community in Early Modern Society,” in Early Modern Catholicism: Essays in Honour of John W. O’Malley, S.J., eds. Kathleen M. Comerford and Hilmar M. Pabel (Toronto, 2001), 163-182. BX 835 .E2 2001 Gleason, Elisabeth G. (ed.), Reform Thought in Sixteenth-Century Italy (= The American Academy of Religion, Texts and Translation Series, No. 4) (s.l, 1981), 9-19. BL 25 .A53 T3 n.4 or Olin, The Catholic Reformation, 16-26. Andrew Montanaro: Bossy, John, Christianity in the West, 1400-1700 (New York, 1985), 3-87. BR 280 .B6 1985 Restored Central Bureaucracy: Renaissance Papacy 10/26: Minnich: Enea Silvio Piccolomini, Memoirs of a Renaissance Pope: The Commentaries of Pius II. An Abridgment, ed. Leona C. Gabel, trans. Florence A. Gragg (New York, 1959), 27-110, 118-44, 149-53, 196-211, 221-59, 356-76. BX 903 G 73 E5 1959 Defensorium obedientiae apostolicae et alia documenta, ed. and trans. Heiko A. Oberman, Daniel E. Zerfoss, and William J. Courtenay, (Cambridge, MA, 1968), 225-27, 357-65. BT 369 B58 D3 Victoria Sequeira Church and State Through the Centuries: A Collection of Historic Documents with Commentaries, trans. and ed. Sidney Z. Ehler and John B. Morrall, (London, 1954), 112-20, 125-31, 134-59. BT 3464 .E33 Olin, John C., The Catholic Reformation: Savonarola to Ignatius Loyola. Reform in the Church 1495-1540, (Westminster, Md., 1969), 4-15, 44-64. BX 863. 046 C3 Schroeder, Henry Joseph, Disciplinary Decrees of the General Councils, (St. Louis, 1937), 480-509. BV 11 S38 Mid-Term Examination 10/19: have read by then: Swanson, Robert Norman, Religion and Devotion in Europe c. 1215--c. 1515 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995). Oakley, Francis A., The Western Church in the Later Middle Ages, (Ithaca, 1979). BX 753 .015 Dickens, Arthur Geoffrey, The Counter-Reformation, (N.Y., 1969), 7-28. BX 863 D54 C8 Ozment, Steven, The Age of Reform, 1250-1550: An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe (New Haven, 1980), 1-222 BR 270.09 3 Religious Life: Observantism among Monks and Mendicants, New Forms: Brethern of the Common Life, Clerks Regular 11/2: Michael Tinker: Valla, Lorenzo, `The Profession of the Religious' and the Principal Arguments from `The Falsely-Believed and Forged Donation of Constantine', trans. and ed. Olga Zorgi Pugliese (Toronto, 1985),17-74. PA 8585 .V215 P73 1985* Olin, The Catholic Reformation, 128-81, 198-211. Thomas Haemerken von Kempen, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chps.1-25; II, 1-12; III, 16-44; IV 1, 3, 11, 18. BT 2516 Iberian Church and Missions 11/9: Minnich: Kamen, Henry. The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision (New Haven, 1997) BXZ 1735 .K312 1998. Olin, John C., ed., Autobiography of St. Ignatius Loyola, (New York, 1974). BX 7465 .A3 1974 German Church and the Rise of the Protestant Movements 11/16: Samuel Deas: Manifestations of Discontent in Germany on the Eve of the Reformation, ed. and trans. Gerald Strauss, (Bloomington, Ind., 1971), 3-63. DD 174 S91 M2 Joseph Goldsmith: Wicks, Jared, Luther and His Spiritual Legacy, (Wilmington, Del., 1983). BR 333.2 W63 L8 1983 Also available on the web as www.jcu.edu→academics→academic departments and programs→religious studies→faculty→J. Wicks→Studies of Martin Luther’s Theology→Luther and His Spiritual Legacy (download 7 chapters, one at a time) Elizabeth Campbell: The Essential Erasmus, ed. and trans. John P. Dolan, (New York, 1964), 98-173. PA 8502 E5 D65 1964 Olin, The Catholic Reformation, 65-89 James Douthwaite: 4 Bagchi, David V. N., Luther's Earliest Opponents: Catholic Controversialists, 1518-1525, (Minneapolis, 1991). BR 355 P36 B 34 1991 Italian Evangelism 11/30: Tiffany Meadows: Olin, The Catholic Reformation, 90-106. Gleason, Reform Thought, 21-52, 103-161. Spiritual and Anabaptist Writers, ed. G.H. Williams and Angel H. Mergal, (Philadelphia, 1957), 321-29, 335-50, 353-90. BQ 302 L69 vol. 25 French and English Churches 12/7 Minnich: Olin, The Catholic Reformation, 31-39, 107-27. Papal Responses, Why 1540? Gleason, Reform Thought, 55-80. Olin, The Catholic Reformation, 182-97. Final Examination 12/16 (4:00 - 6:00): have read by then: Dickens, 29-106 Bossy, 89-171 Ozment, 223-351, 397-418 5 Other materials (e.g. lab supplies, calculators) with specifics of what is needed and how to obtain None Course Goals The purposes or goals of the course are to provide the student with an understanding of the condition of the Western Christian Church at the end of the Middle Ages and beginning of the Early Modern Period: its relations with civil authorities, internal administrative problems, the contending models of the Church [conciliarist and papal], mainline currents of thought [scholastic and humanistic], marginal currents [heresies, mysticism, prophecies], life of the laity [piety and confraternities], religious life [Observantism, new movements and orders], the restored papal monarchy, and the conditions of the Church in Iberia, Germany, France, and England as the Protestant Reformation began, and the initial papal response to Protestantism. Goals for Student Learning At the conclusion of the course, the student will be able to demonstrate such an understanding by intelligent discussion of the issues and answering questions in a written examination. Course Requirements Assignments/Projects: Reading the materials on the reading list and demonstrating an understanding of them both in the discussions and in the written examinations A paper is optional. To be at least 12 pages of text, plus footnotes and bibliography Examinations: A midterm and a final examination Expectations and policies Academic honesty: Academic honesty is expected of all CUA students. Faculty are required to initiate the imposition of sanctions when they find violations of academic honesty, such as plagiarism, improper use of a student’s own work, cheating, and fabrication. The following sanctions are presented in the University procedures related to Student Academic Dishonesty (from 6 http://policies.cua.edu/academicundergrad/integrityprocedures.cfm): “The presumed sanction for undergraduate students for academic dishonesty will be failure for the course. There may be circumstances, however, where, perhaps because of an undergraduate student’s past record, a more serious sanction, such as suspension or expulsion, would be appropriate. In the context of graduate studies, the expectations for academic honesty are greater, and therefore the presumed sanction for dishonesty is likely to be more severe, e.g., expulsion. ...In the more unusual case, mitigating circumstances may exist that would warrant a lesser sanction than the presumed sanction.” Please review the complete texts of the University policy and procedures regarding Student Academic Dishonesty, including requirements for appeals, at http://policies.cua.edu/academicundergrad/integrity.cfm and http://policies.cua.edu/academicundergrad/integrity.cfm. Other Policies or Expectations. Students are expected to attend classes and to come to discussions with the materials read and to participate in the discussions. Those students who take the additional paper option are required to submit their paper topic for approval, an outline of the paper with tentative bibliography, and final version on or before the dates set. Papers must be submitted in both hardcopy and electronic formats and should follow the Chicago Manuel of Style and be free of grammatical, spelling, and typographical errors. In addition, all papers must come with a signed statement from a member of the staff of the Writing Center (111 O’Boyle x4286) testifying to the student’s having consulted with the Writing Center on how to improve the paper. Failure to meet the deadlines will disqualify one from using the paper option and failure to produce a paper according to the above instructions will result in penalties. Campus Resources for student support: (e.g. add contact information for library, tutoring center, writing center, counseling center) See above regarding consultation with the Writing Center on all optional papers. Accommodations for students with disabilities: Any student who feels s/he may need an accommodation based on the impact of a disability should contact the instructor privately to discuss specific needs. Please contact Disability Support Services (at 202 319-5211, room 207 Pryzbyla Center) to coordinate reasonable accommodations for students with documented disabilities. To read about the services and policies, please visit the website: http://disabilitysupport.cua.edu. 7 Assessment: Grade percentages voted on by the students: Discussions: Normal Paper 45 35 Paper Option: 20 Mid-term Examination: 25 20 Final Examination: 30 25 Total: 100 100 University grades: The University grading system is available at http://policies.cua.edu/academicgrad//gradesfull.cfm#iii for graduate students. Reports of grades in courses http://cardinalstation.cua.edu . are available 8 at the end of each term on Course Lecture Schedule: 8/31 Terms "Catholic" and "Counter" Reformation; Church and State: Theory and Practice 9/7 Institutional Church Problems: Avignonese Papacy, Great Western Schism, Conciliarism 9/14 Mainline Thinking: Scholasticism and Humanism Deadline for decision on paper option 9/21 Marginal Thinking: Mysticism, Heresies, Prophecies 9/28 Religion of the Laity: Preachers, Popular Piety, Confraternities 10/5 Restored Central Bureaucracy: Renaissance Papacy Deadline for paper topic 10/12 Administrative Wednesday – no class 10/19 Mid-Term Examination 10/26 Religious Life: Observantism among Monks and Mendicants, New Forms: Brethern of the Common Life, Clerks Regular 11/2 Iberian Church and Missions Deadline for outline of paper 11/9 German Church and Erasmus 11/16 Rise of the Protestant Movements 11/23 Italian Evangelism Deadline for completed paper 11/30 French and English Churches 12/7 Papal Responses, Why 1540? 12/16 Final Examination 4:00 - 6:00 9