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Wednesday, October 4, 2006: The Splintering of the Protestant Reformation, The Catholic Response, and Europe’s Wars of Religion. OUTLINE A. CHRISTIAN HUMANISM IN FRANCE B. REFORMED PROTESTANTISM AND THE REFORMED COMMUNITY C. THE FRENCH WARS OF RELIGION D. THE EDICT OF NANTES
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Wednesday, October 4, 2006: The Splintering of the Protestant Reformation, The Catholic Response, and Europe’s Wars of Religion • OUTLINE • A. CHRISTIAN HUMANISM IN FRANCE • B. REFORMED PROTESTANTISM AND THE REFORMED COMMUNITY • C. THE FRENCH WARS OF RELIGION • D. THE EDICT OF NANTES • E. CONFESSIONAL ACCOMMODATION AT THE LOCAL LEVEL
A. RABELAIS, CHRISTIAN HUMANISM, AND THE FRENCH REFORMATION • --the link between Rabelais and the religious reform currents of this period • --biography of Rabelais
Source: http://etab.ac-orleans-tours.fr/lyc-fvillon-beaugency/Publier/Rab1.jpg
Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Battle of Carnival and Lent-Oil on wood, 121,3 x 171,5 cm ; Web Gallery of Art Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
Source: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/configurations/v006/mid/6.2findlen_fig01m.gif
1532: First publication of Pantagruel (the work is so successful that it is printed in seven editions over the next three years) • 1533: The Sorbonne (Faculty of Theology of the University of Paris) condemns it • 1534: The Affair of the Placards (François Ier changes his policy and adopts one of harsh persecution against Lutherans in France) • 1545: François Ier gives Rabelais a license to publish yet another work (what the hey??)
DISTINCTIONS BETWEEN CATHOLIC AND PROTESTANT BELIEF • -understanding of justification, faith, and good works • -Reformed Protestantism: the accent on predestination
B. REFORMED PROTESTANTISM AND THE REFORMED COMMUNITY • -accent on the moral community, a community of the elect • -the role of the consistory
C. THE FRENCH WARS OF RELIGION • --some general themes • --phases of the war • --why they continued for so long
The phase before the Wars • From the affair of the placards to the failure of the Colloquy of Poissy
The first phase • Starts in 1562 • The phase ends with the Edict of St. Germain and the negotiations for the marriage between Henri de Navarre and Marguerite de Navarre
Source: http://www.gildasattic.com/image406.gif Source: http://www.tchevalier.com/thevirginblue/background/stbart/massacre.jpg
The second phase • From the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre to the Peace of Bergerac of 1577 • Rise of the Holy League
Philippe Duplesis-Mornay, Vindication of Liberty against Tyrants Source: http://www.droz.org/siteDroz/ressources/1000245/628.gif
The Third Phase • From the Peace of Bergerac of 1577 to treaty of Nemours signed between Henri III and the Holy League • Intense because of the prospect of a Protestant succession
The Fourth Phase • Up to the Edict of Nantes of 1598 (the formal end of the French Wars of Religion, depending on who you read) • Henri IV’s struggle for his throne
Henri IV Source: http://intoboots.free.fr/Galeries/Art/Statues/HenriIV.jpg