International Theological Library A History of The Reformation By Thomas M. Lindsay, M.A., D.D. Principal, The United Free Church College, Glasgow In Two Volumes Volume I The Reformation in Germany From Its Beginning to the Religious Peace of Augsburg Edinburgh T. & T. Clark 1906 CONTENTS Series Advertisement. Dedication. Preface. Book I. On The Eve Of The Reformation. Chapter I. The Papacy. § 1. Claim to Universal Supremacy. § 2. The Temporal Supremacy. § 3. The Spiritual Supremacy. Chapter II. The Political Situation. § 1. The small extent of Christendom. § 2. Consolidation. § 3. England. § 4. France. § 5. Spain. § 6. Germany and Italy. § 7. Italy. § 8. Germany. Chapter III. The Renaissance. § 1. The Transition from the Mediæval to the Modern World. § 2. The Revival of Literature and Art. § 3. Its earlier relation to Christianity. § 4. The Brethren of the Common Lot. § 5. German Universities, Schools, and Scholarship. § 6. The earlier German Humanists. § 7. The Humanist Circles in the Cities. § 8. Humanism in the Universities. § 9. Reuchlin. § 10. The “Epistolæ Obscurorum Virorum.” § 11. Ulrich von Hutten. Chapter IV. Social Conditions. § 1. Towns and Trade. § 2. Geographical Discoveries and the beginning of a World Trade. § 3. Increase in Wealth and luxurious Living. § 4. The Condition of the Peasantry. § 5. Earlier Social Revolts. § 6. The religious Socialism of Hans Böhm. § 7. Bundschuh Revolts. § 8. The Causes of the continuous Revolts. Chapter V. Family And Popular Religious Life in the Decades Before the Reformation. § 1. Devotion of Germany to the Roman Church. § 2. Preaching. § 3. Church Festivals. § 4. The Family Religious Life. § 5. A superstitious Religion based on Fear. § 6. A non-Ecclesiastical Religion. § 7. The “Brethren.” Chapter VI. Humanism And Reformation. § 1. Savonarola. § 2. John Colet. § 3. Erasmus. Book II. The Reformation. Chapter I. Luther to the Beginning of the Controversy About Indulgences. § 1. Why Luther was successful as the Leader in a Reformation. § 2. Luther’s Youth and Education. § 3. Luther in the Erfurt Convent. § 4. Luther’s early Life in Wittenberg. § 5. Luther’s early Lectures in Theology. § 6. The Indulgence-seller. Chapter II. From The Beginning of the Indulgence Controversy to the Diet of Worms. § 1. The Theory and Practice of Indulgences in the Sixteenth Century. § 2.