The Reformation (Old Western Culture Reader)

The Reformation Reader accompanies The Reformation unit of Old Western Culture. Containing 25 Reformation era texts and Renaissance poetry, with introductions by Dr. W. Bradford Littlejohn situating each text in history. This Reader offers a unique, primary-source approach to the Reformation.

Texts and Excerpts Included in this Volume:
-Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (1387-1400)
-Boniface VIII, Clericis Laicos (1296) & Unam Sanctam (1302)
-Marsilius of Padua, Defensor Pacis
-The Council of Constance, Sacrosancta (1414) & Frequens (1417)
-Erasmus of Rotterdam, Julius Exclusus (1517)
-Martin Luther, Ninety-Five Theses (1517), Letter to the Christian Nobility (1520), Babylonian Captivity of the Church (1520), & The Freedom of the Christians (1520)
-Leo X, Exsurge Domine (1520)
-Machael Sattler, The Schleitheim Articles (1527)
-Philip Melanchthon, Apology of the Augsburg Confession (1531)
-John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536-1559)
-The Council of Trent, The Decree of Trent (1545)
-Ignatius of Loyola, Spiritual Exercises (1548)
-Zacharias Ursinus, Commentary on the Heidelberg Catechism (1585)
-Church of England, Book of Common Prayer (1559)
-John Foxe, Foxe's Book of Martyrs (1563)
-Field and Wilcox, An Admonition to Parliment (1572)
-Richard Hooker, The Laws of Ecclesastical Politie (1586-1597)
-Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Amoretti, Epithalimion (1590)