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Martin Luther and the German Reformation

Key information

  • Module code:

    5AAT2024

  • Level:

    5

  • Semester:

      Autumn

  • Credit value:

    15

Module description

This module aims to enable students to understand the nature and significance of key aspects of the content and context of the early German Reformation; to promote critical engagement with historians’ divergent interpretations of that history; and to allow analysis of selected primary sources (in English) upon which such interpretations are based. A mixture of theology and the social history of religion, the module attempts to highlight the issues at stake and to bring Luther and his contemporaries back to life.

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Assessment details

One 2-hour examination, 100%

Educational aims & objectives

  • to facilitate an understanding of the nature and significance of key features of the early German Reformation, and particularly of Martin Luther's contribution to it, in relation to various contexts.
  • to encourage students to develop the capacity critically to assess modern historians' interpretations of the early German Reformation.
  • to encourage students to develop the capacity critically to assess selected primary sources.
  • to encourage students to improve their analytical, argumentative and presentational skills, both orally and on paper.
  • to provide a foundation for those students who wish to take other modules in religious history, particularly of the Reformation period.

Teaching pattern

Two-hour weekly classes over ten weeks.

Department

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