Lesson Plans

The Western Heritage ©2000

by Kagan, Ozment, and Turner

Focus Lesson 3

Chapter 11: "The Age of Reformation"

AP* Course Description

1. Intellectual and Cultural History
   • Changes in religious thought and institutions
   • Intellectual and cultural developments and their relationship to social values and political events
   • Developments in social, economic, and political thought
   • The diffusion of new intellectual concepts among different social groups
   • Changes in elite and popular culture, such as the development of new attitudes toward religion, the family, work, and ritual
2. Political and Diplomatic History
   • The extension and limitation of rights and liberties (personal, civic, economic, and political); majority and minority; political persecutions
   • The growth and changing forms of nationalism
   • Forms of political protest, reform, and revolution
   • Relationship between domestic and foreign policies
   • Efforts to restrain conflict: treaties, balance of power, diplomacy, and international organizations
   • War and civil conflict: origins, developments, technology, and their consequences
3. Social and Economic History
   • The role of urbanization in transforming cultural values and social relationships
   • The shift in social structures from hierarchical orders to modern social classes: the changing distribution of wealth and poverty
   • The influence of sanitation and health care practices on society; food supply, diet, famine, disease, and their impact
   • Gender roles and their influence on work, social structure, family structure, and interest group formation

Key Components

• Instructor's Manual: pp. 24–26
• Study Guide and Workbook, Vol. I: pp. 108–118
• Test Item File: pp. 56–61

Key Web Sites

• Hanover College Historical Text Projects: Early Modern Europe
• Germany 6 from Hospitality North, Prince George, British Columbia, Canada
• CRG Home Page

Key Words and Terms

Suggested Pacing

Test Strategy

Key Concepts

• Factors leading to the Reformation
  The factors that brought about the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation can be classified as social, religious, and political. As students work their way through the chapter, have them create a table categorizing the various factors and deciding which ones were the most important in the development and spread of the various Protestant sects. They should see that often politics was as important or more important than the original religious motivation.
  
  
• Changing role of women
  Although from the modern viewpoint the role of women during the Reformation was extremely limited, it is important to look at the issue from the orientation of the period itself. During the Middle Ages, women had few political rights, but they had certain economic and personal freedoms under the feudal system. During the Renaissance, women's "elevation" to a protected position contracted their rights and responsibilities. Coming from this period of limitation, the expanding legal power and family responsibility given to women during the Reformation was seen as an advance.

Summing Up Student Understanding

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

• Aspects of Western Civilization, Vol. I, edited by Rogers—Chapter 9, "The State of the Papacy," "The Lutheran Reformation," "In the Wake of Luther," "The Catholic Reformation"
• Sources of the West, Vol. I, edited by Kishlausky—Part III, "Religious Reform"