The Reformation could be said to begin on the day in 1517 when Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses (written in Latin) to the church door. The end of that period is harder to pinpoint. An early end to it might be the closing of the Council of Trent, which heralded the Catholic Church’s Counter-Reformation. A looser definition might extend the period of the Reformation until the Thirty-Years’ War or even the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
In order to adequately divide history into chunks that serve the purposes of this blog, we will begin the Reformation with a look at medieval movements that predated Martin Luther and allow it to end during the last year of the Thirty-Years’ War.
The Holy Roman Empire
The Renaissance and Humanism
The Protestant Reformation
Henry VIII
The Counter-Reformation
Mary I and Elizabeth I
Spain: From Reconquista to Empire
The Americas
The Muslim World
The Holy Roman Empire
The Renaissance and Humanism
The Protestant Reformation
Henry VIII
The Counter-Reformation
Mary I and Elizabeth I
Spain: From Reconquista to Empire
The Americas
The Muslim World
