OWC Reader Vol. 12, The Reformation, paperback cover

The Reformation

Chaucer to Spenser

The Reformation Reader accompanies The Reformation unit of Old Western Culture . Containing 25 Reformation era texts and Renaissance poetry, with introductions by Dr. W. Bradford Littlejohn situating each text in history. This Reader offers a unique, primary-source approach to the Reformation. Also available in Hardback .

703 pages · 6 × 9 in. · single-column, beautifully typeset

Pairs withChristendom: The ReformationThe video course, 12 lectures · from $74.75
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All sixteen volumes: the complete set, paperback $512 or hardback $720

Contents

What is in this volume

  • Geoffrey ChaucerThe Canterbury Tales
  • Boniface VIIIClericis Laicos; Unam Sanctam
  • Marsilius of PaduaDefensor Pacis
  • The Council of ConstanceSacrosancta; Frequens
  • ErasmusJulius Exclusus
  • Martin LutherNinety-Five Theses; To the Christian Nobility; The Babylonian Captivity of the Church; The Freedom of a Christian
  • Leo XExsurge Domine
  • Michael SattlerThe Schleitheim Articles
  • Philip MelanchthonApology of the Augsburg Confession
  • John CalvinInstitutes of the Christian Religion
  • The Council of TrentThe Decree of Trent
  • Ignatius of LoyolaSpiritual Exercises
  • Zacharias UrsinusCommentary on the Heidelberg Catechism
  • Church of EnglandBook of Common Prayer (1559)
  • John FoxeFoxe’s Book of Martyrs
  • Field and WilcoxAn Admonition to Parliament
  • Richard HookerThe Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity
  • Edmund SpenserThe Faerie Queene; Amoretti; Epithalamion

Everything assigned in Christendom: The Reformation, with the book and line references the lectures use.

Publishing information

The Reformation, Old Western Culture Reader Vol. 12

  • Pages703
  • Dimensions6 × 9 in.
  • Paperback ISBN978-1-944482-23-7
  • Hardback ISBN978-1-944482-22-0 · casebound
  • Editor and introductionsDr. W. Bradford Littlejohn
  • Series editorDaniel Foucachon
  • PublisherRoman Roads Press, Moscow, Idaho
The series

Sixteen volumes, Homer to Tolkien

The Old Western Culture Reader Series puts the great books of Western civilization in beautifully typeset, single-column volumes, one for each unit of the curriculum. Each stands on its own as well.

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Questions

Do I need this to take the course?

No. The course includes this Reader as an eBook in the app, and your own edition works too. We recommend reading in print; this volume has every assigned text, in the editions the lectures follow.

How do I get the eBook?

It appears in your Roman Roads app library after the order, under the same account.

Can I use it without Old Western Culture?

Yes. It is a complete volume of the great books it holds, intended for high school students, adults reading the classics later in life, and teachers.