Aims and Objectives

This tutorial package aims to provide half the teaching content of a semesterised undergraduate module in a United Kingdom university degree course. It is designed for use within a broader teaching framework. Within that broader framework it aims:

• to enable students to appreciate the variety of 'reformations' which occurred in Europe (by means of geographically delineated case-studies), providing the necessary institutional context in each case.
• to set the key conceptual discussions of the reformation into a context which allows students to appreciate their contemporary broader significance.
• to enable students to analyse and appreciate the contemporary symbolic or iconographic representations of the issues raised by the protestant reformation in the broadsheet literature of the period.
• to provide students with the context within which to understand the religious thought of some of the 'magisterial' protestant theologians.
• to investigate some of the contemporary or near-contemporary written evidence and, by looking at the way historians have used it, to allow students to appreciate the subject's complex historiography.
• to provide a selective introduction to more recent historiographical debates about the subject with an up-to-date bibliography to enable them to pursue these debates more fully in private study.
• to provide some private-study exercises which will assist students to focus their attention upon the general points raised in the course of the various sections of the tutorial.

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