The Renaissance and Reformation in Northern Europe.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- How to Read a Historical Document -- 1 THE BACKGROUND TO REFORM -- 1. Cardinal Guillaume Filastre (1348-1428) -- Diary of the Council of Constance -- 2. Peter of Mladonovice (1390s-1451) -- The End of the Saintly and Reverend Master John Hus -- 3. Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (Pius II) (1405-64) -- First Book of the Commentaries -- 4. John Wyclif (c. 1330-84) -- Of Wedded Men and Wives and of Their Children Also -- 5. Thomas à Kempis (1379/80-1471) -- The Imitation of Christ -- 2 EARLY NORTHERN HUMANISM -- 6. Conrad Celtis (1459-1508) -- Oration Delivered Publicly in the University of Ingolstadt -- 7. Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) -- Letter to the Professors and Masters of the University of Oxford -- 8. Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466?-1536) -- Letter to Jodocus Jonus on Vitrier and Colet -- 9. William Roper (c. 1495-1578) -- The Life of Sir Thomas More -- 10. Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466?-1536) -- The Paraclesis -- 11. Cardinal Francisco Ximenes (1436-1517) -- Prologue to the Polyglot -- 12. Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466?-1536) -- A Pilgrimage for Religion's Sake -- 3 THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION -- LUTHER -- 13. Martin Luther (1483-1546) -- To the Christian Nobility -- THE RADICAL REFORMATION -- 14. Anonymous (1525) -- The Twelve Articles -- 15. Martin Luther (1483-1546) -- An Admonition to Peace -- 16. Martin Luther (1483-1546) -- Against the Robbing and Murdering Hordes -- 17. Thomas Müntzer (1489-1525) -- A Highly Provoked Defense -- MOTHERS OF THE CHURCH -- 18. Katharina Schütz Zell (1498-1562) -- Letter to . . . Strasbourg -- 19. Argula von Grumbach (c. 1492-1554) -- To Adam von Thering -- CALVIN -- 20. Michael Servetus (1511-53) -- On the Errors of the Trinity -- 21. John Calvin (1509-64) -- Reply to Sadoleto -- ENGLAND -- 22. Simon Fish (d. 1531).

A Supplication for the Beggars -- 23. Prohibition of Appeals to Rome -- 24. Anne Askew (c. 1520-46) -- The Two Examinations -- LUTHER'S IMPACT -- 25. Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560) -- Funeral Oration over Luther -- 4 THE CATHOLIC REFORMATION -- 26. Consilium de Emendanda Ecclesia, 1537 -- 27. The Capuchin Constitutions of 1536 -- 28. Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556) -- Letter on Obedience -- 29. Teresa of Avila (1515-82) -- Spiritual Testimonies -- 5 SOCIAL RELATIONS -- 30. The Trial of Mary and Joseph -- 31. Malleus Maleficarum -- 32. Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) -- Utopia, Book I -- 33. Martin Luther (1483-1546) -- On the Family -- 34. Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1549) -- The Heptameron -- 35. Hans Sachs (1494-1576) -- The Old Game -- 36. Michel de Montaigne (1533-92) -- On Experience -- 37. Thomas Deloney -- Jack of Newbury -- 38. Juan Luis Vives (1492-1540) -- On Assistance to the Poor -- 39. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) -- Ulysses on Degree, from Troilus and Cressida -- 6 DISCOVERING NEW WORLDS ABROAD -- GOING WEST -- 40. Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) -- The Privileges Accorded to Columbus by Ferdinand and Isabella -- 41. Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo (1478-1557) -- General and Natural History of the Indies -- 42. Bernal Díaz (1492-1581) -- The Expedition of Francisco Hernández de Córdoba -- 43. Stephen Parmenius of Buda (c. 1541-83) -- Letter to . . . Richard Hakluyt . . . From St. John's Harbor, Newfoundland, 1583 -- GOING EAST -- 44. Richard Hakluyt (c. 1552-1616) -- The book made by . . . Mr. Robert Thorne in the year 1527 in Seville, to Dr. Ley -- 45. Sir Martin Frobisher (c. 1535-94) -- The second voyage of Captain Frobisher, made to the West and Northwest regions, in the yere 1577 -- 46. Richard Hakluyt (c. 1552-1616).

Notes given in 1580 to Mr. Arthur Pet, and to Mr. Charles Jackman, sent by the merchants of the Muscovy Company for the discovery of the Northeast Strait -- 7 IMAGINING NEW WORLDS AT HOME -- 47. William Caxton (b. 1415-24, d. 1492) -- Prologue to the Translation of the Eneydos -- 48. Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) -- Don Quixote: Dedication to the Duke of Béjar and the Prologue -- 49. Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) -- Don Quixote -- 50. Nostradamus (Michel de Nostradame) (1503-66) -- Letter to King Henri II of France -- 51. The Fugger Newsletters (1568-1604) -- 52. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) -- Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina -- 53. John Shute (d. 1563) -- The First and Chief Groundes of Architecture -- 54. Jean Bodin (1530-96) -- Method for the Easy Comprehension of History -- 55. François Rabelais (c. 1483-1533) -- Gargantua and Pantagruel -- 56. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) -- The Merchant of Venice -- 8 RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION POLITICS -- 57. Sir Thomas Elyot (c. 1490-1546) -- The Boke Named the Governour -- 58. Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam (c. 1466-1536) -- The Education of a Christian Prince -- 59. Juan Luis Vives (1492-1540) -- On the Writing of Letters -- 60. Emperor Charles V (1500-58) -- Advice to His Son -- 61. John Knox (c. 1514-72) -- The First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women -- 62. Queen Elizabeth I of England (1533-1603) -- Queen Elizabeth's First Speech, Hatfield, November 20, 1558 -- Richard Mulcaster's Account of Queen Elizabeth's Speech -- 63. Theodore Beza (1519-1605) -- On the Right of Magistrates -- Sources.

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