• John Wyclyff, Jan Huss / The Hussite Wars 1419-1434
• Simony, pluralism, absenteeism, concubinage, indulgences, anti-clericalism
• Good Works
• The Price Revolution
• The Little Ice Age
• Reichsritter
• Antwerp; Amsterdam; Saxony; Wittenburg; Mainz; Worms; Nuremburg; Augsburg; Geneva; Zurich
• Charles V (Hapsburg)
• Desiderius Erasmus; In Praise of Folly
• Fifth Lateran Council (1512-17)
• Index of Prohibited Books
• The Inquisition
• Frederick III the Wise of Saxony / University of Wittenberg
• Johan von Staupitz
• Johannes Eck
• Cardinal Cajetan
• Martin Luther; 95 Theses; Address to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation; On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church; Against the Thieving and Murderous Hordes of Peasants; On the Jews and Their Lies; The September Testament; ‘A Mighty Fortress’
• Philip Melanchthon; Confession of Augsburg; Gymnasia
• Michael Agricola
• Sola Scriptura; Justification by Faith (sola fide)
• Exsurge Domine (Decet Romanum Pontificem)
• Johan Tetzel
• The Fuggers of Augsburg
• Albrecht von Hohenzollern, Archbishop of Mainz
• Millenarianism; Whore of Babylon
• The Deutsche Messe; ‘A Mighty Fortress is our God’
• The German Gymnasium / Michael Agricola
• Battle of Mohács 1526 / Siege of Vienna 1529
• Ulrich von Hutten
• Zwickau Prophets; Thomas Muntzer
•  Peasants War 1525
• Anabaptism – John of Leiden (at Münster)
• Disputation at Leipzig (1519)
• Diet of Worms (1521) / The Wartburg / The September Testament
• Colloquy of Marburg (1529)
• Diet of Augsburg (1530) / Augsburg Confession 1530
• Peace of Augsburg (1555)
• Stockholm Bloodbath (1523) / Swedish War of Liberation 1521-23
• Peasants War (1524-25); Twelve Articles of the Peasants
• Schmalkaldic League (1531)
• Deutsche Messe
• Huldrych Zwingli; ‘Regarding the Choice and Freedom of Foods’ / Zurich / Swiss Brethren
• The Peace of Kappel (1531)
• John Calvin; Institutes of the Christian Church / Geneva
• iconoclasm; predestination; millenarianism
• Schmalkaldic Wars 1546-55
• Peace of Augsburg 1555 (cuis regio, eius religio)
• Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
• The Scottish Reformation / The Kirk Session

Bigger issues to consider:

1. What role did Humanism play in the Reformation?
2. Why did Charles V hold fire for over 20 years before making war on his Protestant princes?
3. How did Luther and Calvin differ in their conceptions of temporal authority and acceptance of religious ceremony/ritual?
4. How did Protestantism change the culture of those regions that adopted it?