COURSES

SPRING 2011

The Reformation

with Rosemary Williams

Tracing the course of a movement that changed the course of European history

This is an introduction to one of the most important movements in European history, from its first medieval rumblings to the ‘Counter-Reformation’, including discussion of such towering figures as Erasmus, Luther, Zwingli, Calvin, Knox and Cranmer.  This is a subject that still arouses intense passions, and an understanding of it is enlightening to people of all faiths, or of none.

The English Reformation was the series of events in 16th century England by which the Church of England first broke away from the authority of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church.

These events were, in part, associated with the wider process of the European Protestant Reformation, a religious and political movement which affected the practice of Christianity across most of Europe during this period.  Many factors contributed to the process: the decline of feudalism and the rise of nationalism, the rise of the common law, the invention of the printing press and increased circulation of the Bible, the transmission of new knowledge and ideas among scholars and the upper and middle classes.  However, the various phases of the English Reformation, which also covered Wales and Ireland, were largely driven by changes in government policy, to which public opinion gradually accommodated itself.

A simply must attend course for anyone interested in the heritage and developement life in our great country .

Starts 11th January 2011 - 10 am to 11.45 am
For 10 weekly 1.5 hour lectures

Fees: £44.00

However, This course will include a course visit to a relevant place of interest.

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