Internet Medieval Sourcebook
Selected Sources: Reformation
Contents
General
Precursors and Papal Critics
- Raimon de Cornet (14th cent. troubadour): Poem
Criticizing the Avignon Papacy
- Petrarch (1304-1374): Letter Criticizing the
Avignon Papacy
- Marsiglio of Padua (d.1343): Defensor
Pacis: Selections from Text, 1324.
- Marsiglio of Padua (d.1343): Defensor
Pacis: Conclusions, 1324; Same Text with
Introduction also available, complete, and in a different version from Tierney. [Geary
has copyrighted selections from body of the text, chaps. 3 and 13.]
- John XXII: Condemnation of Marsiglio of Padua,
1327.
- The Condemnation of Wycliffe, 1382 and
Wycliffe's Reply, 1384. Also includes John Wycliffe (1324-1384): Condemned
Propositions 1382,
See also
Catholic Encyclopedia:
Lollards.
- John Wycliffe (1324-1384): On the Sacrament of
Communion [Excerpt from Trialogus]. See also Catholic Encyclopedia: Utraquism.
- Dante Alighieri (1265-1321): Divine
Comedy: Inferno XIX - Hell: third pit - on Papal Avarice. See also
Catholic
Encyclopedia: Dante Alighieri.
- Dante Alighieri (1265-1321): Divine Comedy:
Inferno XIX. [Another version]
- Desiderius Erasmus (ca. 1469-1536): The Praise of Folly (Moriae
Encomium), 1509 [At this Site][Full text]
-
Desiderius Erasmus (ca. 1469-1536): In
Praise of Folly, trans. John Wilson, 1688 [Full text] [At CCEL]
More Erasmus texts are at the
Erasmus Text
Project [At Sewanee]
- Jan Hus (1372/73-1415): Final
Declaration, July 1, 1415 [At this Site]
- Sir (St.) Thomas More (1478-1535): Utopia, 1516 [At this
Site][Full text]
Protestant Reformation
- Luther
- WEB Project
Wittenberg
Sources on Luther and the Lutheran tradition.
- WEB Selected
Works of Martin Luther, 1483 - 1546 [At ICLNet]
- Martin Luther (1483-1546): 95 Theses, 1517
See also
Catholic Encyclopedia:
Martin Luther, [Warning - a tendentious article].
- Martin Luther (1483-1546): Martin Luther: 95 Theses
- in Latin, 1517
- Martin Luther (1483-1546): Letter to
Archbishop of Mainz [On Indulgences], 1517.
-
Martin Luther (1483-1546): To the Christian Nobility of
the German Nation [At Hanover]
See also Introduction to this text.
- Martin Luther (1483-1546): On
the Freedom of a Christian, (1483-1546), extracts. [At WSU]
- Martin Luther (1483-1546): On the Freedom of a
Christian, full text, See also Martin Luther (1483-1546): Von der Freiheit eines Christenmenschen, In German.
- Martin Luther (1483-1546): The
German Mass and Order of Divine Service. [At Hanover]
- Martin Luther (1483-1546): Luther Before 1517: Letters to Spalatin
These letters are interesting in showing Luther's atitude towards Rome and towards
theology. They also reveal that Luther's hatred of Jews, best seen in his 1543 letter, was
not some affectation of old age, but was present very early on.
- "On The Jews and Their Lies", a treatise by Martin Luther (translated by Martin H. Bertram, Luther's Works, Vol. 47: The Christian In Society IV, ed. by Franklin Sherman (c) 1971
Fortress Press, pages 121-306) has been removed because of copyright objections. We will attempt
to provide a new translation of the German text at some point, but meanwhile welcome a translation
any scholar wishes to supply.
-
Leo X: Exsurge
Domine, June 15 1520. [At Papal Encyclicals]
The papal Bull which condemned Martin Luther.
- Calvin
- Radicals
- England
Catholic Reformation
-
The Tridentine Creed of Pius IV,
1564 [At Traditional Catholic.net] [English and Latin]
- St. Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556): The Spiritual Exercises
[excerpts]. The full
text is available [At CCEL]. See also Catholic Encyclopedia: Ignatius
Loyola, Saint and Catholic
Encyclopedia: The Society of Jesus (Jesuits). and Norman O'Neal, S.J.:
A Sketch of the Life of
St. Ignatius Loyola [At LUC]
- St. Francis Xavier: Letter
from India, to the Society of Jesus at Rome, 1543
- St. Francis Xavier: Letter
on the Missions, to St. Ignatius de Loyola, 1549
- St. Francis Xavier: Letter
from Japan, to the Society of Jesus at Goa, 1551
- St. Francis Xavier: Letter
from Japan, to the Society of Jesus in Europe, 1552
- Hsu Kuang-chi: Memorial
to Fra Matteo Ricci, 1617
NOTES: copyrighted means the text is not available for free distribution. In
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location]. No indication means that the text file is local. WEB indicates a link to one of
small number of high quality web sites which provide either more texts or an especially
valuable overview.
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