In light of the readings, how were conditions in Western Europe on the eve of the Reformation meeting people’s religious needs such that one living in the mid-1510s would not have suspected that a rupture in Christendom was about to occur? In your response be sure to cite and analyze specifics from all of the readings.
Western Europe on the Eve of Reformation Readings: Carlos Eire, Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450-1650 (Yale, 2016). • Prelude, pp. 1-2. • Chapter 1, “An Age of Breakthroughs,” pp. 3-18. • Chapter 2, “Religion in Late Medieval Christendom,” pp. 19-42. C. Scott Dixon, The Church in the Early Modern Age (I.B. Tauris, 2016). • […]