A short biography helps us to understand the significance of a historical figure, but if you really want to know them, you must read what they wrote. This anthology includes primary source material from the key figures of both the Renaissance and Reformation.The Renaissance selections include Petrarch, Valla, Lorenzo de' Medici, Savonarola, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Machiavelli, Erasmus.The Reformation readings include Wyclif, Hus, Luther, Zwingli, Sattler, Tyndale, Cromwell, More, Calvin, and Knox.The Luther selections include the 95 theses, as well as all three of the famous 1520 essays (Address to the Christian Nobility, On the Babylonian Captivity, and The Freedom of a Christian).For Luther, Calvin, and Knox, we have their own accounts of their conversion experiences
A short biography helps us to understand the significance of a historical figure, but if you really want to know them, you must read what they wrote. This anthology includes primary source material from the key figures of both the Renaissance and Reformation.The Renaissance selections include Petrarch, Valla, Lorenzo de' Medici, Savonarola, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Machiavelli, Erasmus.The Reformation readings include Wyclif, Hus, Luther, Zwingli, Sattler, Tyndale, Cromwell, More, Calvin, and Knox.The Luther selections include the 95 theses, as well as all three of the famous 1520 essays (Address to the Christian Nobility, On the Babylonian Captivity, and The Freedom of a Christian).For Luther, Calvin, and Knox, we have their own accounts of their conversion experiences
