The third part of this course took place on 20th/21st February 2009. This time, the subject was the Reformation and the presenter was Dr Anne Murphy SHCJ. Sister Anne taught in Heythrop College, London, the Jesuit-run theological faculty of London University and, since retiring, has done some tutoring in Oxford where she now lives.

Below you will find links to the Unit 3 presentation slides and some further reading suggestions.  The slides are in PDF format and can only be viewed if you have Adobe Reader installed on your computer.  If you do not have Adobe Reader you can download it by clicking on the image below.

Unit 3 Materials

•  Presentation Slides - Scottish Reformation
•  Presentation Slides - Rennaisance / Reformation

Select  Reading on 16c Reformations

General

MacCulloch, D. (2003) Reformation: Europe’s House Divided 1490-1700 Penguin paperback £9.99.  A masterpiece of readable scholarship. Excellent overview.

Mullett,M. ( 2004) Martin Luther Routledge  paperback. One of the best recent introductions to Luther; by a catholic scholar.

Mullett, M.  (1999) The Catholic Reformation. Routledge paperback. Covers the impulse to reform in late medieval Catholicism, the pressures of countering Protestants reformers, and the refashioning of early modern Catholicsm.

Scotland

Lynch,M. (1981) Edinburgh and the Reformation A revisionist view of the reformation in Scotland suggesting that reform programme not popular at first, but had emerged by the 1580’s.