The roots of the Reformation: tradition, emergence, and rupture

Setting the scene : the "fair field of folk"

Part 1. Bible and church : the questions begin. The idea of church

The idea of faith

Where was the Bible?

Becoming and remaining a member of the church

Penance and the recurring problem of sin

The eucharist and the idea of sacraments

Organization, making decisions and keeping together

The church and the state

Part 2. Continuity and change in the Middle Ages. Monastic life, monastic education and awakening social concerns

The beginning of academic theology and the invention of universities

The evangelical urge and the wandering preachers

Religious experiments by the laity

Rebels, dissidents and repression

Popular preaching and the Bible in the later Middle Ages

Part 3. Continuity and change from the Reformation. Renaissance

Luther and his heirs : the moderate reformers

Henry VIII and English Lutheranism

Peaceful extremists? : the Anabaptist heirs of the Waldensians

Calvin and his heirs : the Puritan reformers

The Counter-Reformation

Church and state again : new political dimensions of the idea of order

Bible questions continue.