The Renaissance and Reformation in Northern Europe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
How to Read a Historical Document

Chapter 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

Chapter 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

Chapter 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 Melancthon (1497–1560)
Funeral Oration over Luther

Chapter 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

Chapter 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

Chapter 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 Harbour, 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

Chapter 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 (1483–1533)
Gargantua and Pantagruel
56. William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
The Merchant of Venice

Chapter 8: Renaissance and Reformation Politics
57. Sir Thomas Elyot (c. 1490–1546)
The Boke Named the Governour
58. Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam (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 and Richard Mulcaster's Account of Queen Elizabeth's Speech
63. Theodore Beza (1519–1605)
On the Right of Magistrates

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