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Discussion topics

·In what ways did religion affect the lives of European people?
·How was the Church in Western Europe organised, and what was the role and significance of the papacy?
·'The threat to the authority of the Church around 1500 came from too much lay piety, rather than too little'. Discuss.

Documents

**NOTE: Some eresources are accessible only on-campus or via off-campus proxies or the athens service**

Interactive DVD

The English Parish Church Through the Centuries, ed. Dee Dyas (Christianity and Culture, 2010), section 'Later Middle Ages': featuring relevant texts, images, audio and videos

Audio Links

'O pastor animarum' (plainchant) by Hildegard von Bingen (d. 1179) Samples from a sung mass by John Taverner (d. 1545), performed by 'The Sixteen' Samples of Tudor church music performed by the Tallis Scholars Also search for suitable versions of the following pieces e.g. on http://uk.youtube.com: John Browne, 'O Maria Salvatoris' (from the 15thC 'Eton Choir Book')

Guillaume Dufay, 'Vasilissa ergo gaude' (isorhythmic motet for 4 voices)

Stabat Mater, in mode 6 (Gregorian Chant)

Ave Verum (Gregorian Chant)

Nowel: 'Owt Of Your Slepe Aryse' (15th Century Carol)

Secondary Literature

• M. Aston, Faith and Fire (1985), esp. chap. 6
• D.W. Baker, Divulging Utopia: Radical humanism in sixteenth-century England (1999)
• W. A. Christian, Local Religion in sixteenth-century Spain (1981)
• J. Dillenberger, Images and relics: theological perceptions and visual images in sixteenth-century Europe (1999)
• E. Duffy, The Stripping of the Altars (1992)
• L. Duggan, 'The unresponsiveness of the late medieval Church: a reconsideration', SCJ 9 (1978)
• C. Harper-Bill, The Pre-Reformation Church in England (1989)
• D. Hay, The Church in Italy in the Fifteenth Century (1977)
• J. Huizinga, The Waning of the Middle Ages (1972)
• R. Hutton, The Rise and Fall of Merry England (1994), chs 1-2
• C.J. Litzenberger, The English Reformation and the laity (1997)
• A. McGrath, Reformation thought: an introduction (2000)
• B. Moeller, ‘Religious life in Germany on the eve of the Reformation’, in G. Strauss (ed.), Pre-Reformation Germany (1972), and his: Imperial Cities and the Reformation: 3 Essays (1972/1982)
• C.G. Nauert, Humanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe (1995)
• D.G. Newcombe, Henry VIII and the English Reformation (1995)
• F. Oakley, The Western Church in the Later Middle Ages (1979)
• H.A. Oberman, ‘The Long Fifteenth Century: In Search of its Profile’, in T. A. Brady (ed.), Deutsche Reformation (2001)
• S. Ozment, The Age of Reform 1250-1550 (1980)
• A. Pettegree, (ed.), The Reformation world (2000)
• P. Provost-Smith, Early Modern Christianity (2010)
• V. Reinburg, 'Liturgy and the laity in late medieval and Reformation France', SCJ 23 (1992)
• G. Rosser, ‘Parochial conformity and voluntary religion in late medieval England’, TRHS 1 (1991)
• Rubin, M., and W. Simons, eds, The Cambridge History of Christianity, IV, Christianity in Western Europe, c. 1100-1500 (Cambridge, 2009)
• R.N. Swanson, Religion and Devotion in Europe c.1215-c.1515 (1995)
• “ , Church and Society in Late Medieval England (1989)
• L. Taylor, ‘Society and Piety’, in: Hsia, R. (ed.), A Companion to the Reformation World (2002)
• A.T. Thayer, Penitence, Preaching and the Coming of the Reformation (2002)
• J.A.F. Thomson, Popes and Princes 1417-1517: Politics and Piety in the Late Medieval Church (1980)

Module Forum

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E-Resources 

External Links

Primary Sources: Early Modern & Reformation

Wycliff New Testament

Vulgate Bible

British Library virtual books: see especially Sforza Hours, Sherbourne Missal, Lindisfarne Gospels, Luttrell Psalter (for those without Microsoft Vista click here)

The Gutenberg Bible

Christian Classics Ethereal Library

Reconstruction of a Mass (from 'Danish Liturgical Fragments')

Virtual Norfolk: Popular Piety

Gregorian Chants

Danish Medieval Church Art

English Medieval Church Art

Glossary of religious terms