Men and women of the renaissance and reformation, 1300-1600

1. The rise and decline of church and papacy – The power of the Church and papacy in the late middle ages – The church and the fabric of everyday life – The secular challenge to the power of the papacy: Boniface VIII versus Philip IV – The intellectual attack on the church and papacy: Dante Alighieri and William of Ockham – The Black Death – Religion, heresy, and revolutionary change: John Wyclif and John Hus – 2. Men, women, and the Renaissance – Petrarch and the birth of Renaissance humanism – Lorenzo de Medici: patron and artist of the Renaissance state – Leonardo da Vinci: the discovery of the world and of man – Caterina Sforza: Renaissance society and the role of women – Erasmus of Rotterdam: the Northern Renaissance, Christendom, and the good society – 3. Long wars and new monarchs? – Edward III and the beginning of the Hundred Years’ War – Joan of Arc and the end of the Hundred Years’ War – Louis “the universal soldier” and the renewal of the French monarchy – Henry VII, the myth of the new monarchy, and the end of the Wars of the Roses – Personal success and dynastic difficulty: Isabella of Castile – 4. The makers of the Reformation – Germany and Europe on the eve of the Reformation: the Holy Roman Empire and Emperor Charles V – The Reformation as religious ideal: Martin Luther – The Reformation, war, and revolution: Ulrich Zwingli and Thomas Muntzer – The Reformation and society: John Calvin and Geneva – The Reformation and dynastic politics: Henry VIII and Thomas Cranmer – Women, the family, and the Reformation: Margaret of Angouleme – 5. The harvest of Catholic revival – Ignatius Loyola: universal soldier for Christ – Mary Tudor: attempted revival and personal failure – Philip II and the Catholic crusade of Spain – Catholic revival and the human dimension: Teresa of Avila – 6. The tide of European expansion – Prince Henry of Portugal: crusader, dreamer, and navigator – Christopher Columbus: visionary and mariner – John Cabot and the beginning of northern exploration – 7. Women, families, and dynastic rule – Common women, noblewomen, children, and the family in sixteenth century Europe – Queen Elizabeth I and the "monstrous regiment of women" – Mary Queen of Scots and the perils of sixteenth century queenship – Catherine de Medici: queen and dynastic mother – Epilogue: Europe 1300-1600: a perspective on the meaning of continuity and change.