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In 1521 a friar stood before the most powerful ruler in Europe and said he could not act against his conscience. Within a generation, Christians who prayed the same Lord's Prayer were burning each other's books, smashing each other's altars and sometimes burning each other. How did an argument about how sinners find mercy split a civilization, and how did Europe learn, slowly and at terrible cost, to live with the pieces?

Here you will sit in on a hearing in a Swiss town hall, watch an English village quietly take its church treasures home and bring them back again, and follow an archbishop through a plague. Catholic and Protestant voices each get their strongest case. The aim is to leave you able to explain what the reformers and their opponents actually believed, see how freedom of conscience grew out of wars nobody won, and spot the Reformation's fingerprints on schools, states and today's arguments about religious liberty.

Levels

  1. 1 1. The Late Medieval Church and Calls for Reform 5-question quiz
  2. 2 2. Luther and 1517 5-question quiz
  3. 3 3. Zwingli, the Peasants and the Radical Reformation 5-question quiz
  4. 4 4. Calvin and Geneva 5-question quiz
  5. 5 5. The English Reformation 5-question quiz
  6. 6 6. The Catholic Reformation 5-question quiz
  7. 7 7. Wars of Religion and the Road to Westphalia 5-question quiz
  8. 8 8. Legacies: Toleration, Literacy and the State 5-question quiz

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