Section outline

  • The Historical Perspective: Reformation and Recatholicization

    Central questions: what was the development of religion in its relation to public and political life during the 15th to the 17th c.

    Required reading: Wolfgang Reinhard, Reformation, Counter-Reformation, and the Early Modern State. A Reassessment, in: The Catholic Historical Review , Jul., 1989, Vol. 75, No. 3 (Jul., 1989), 383-404