Barzun Study Questions (Weeks 1 & 2)

Barzun Study Questions:

Please answer these questions in complete sentences and provide page references for your answers.

Weeks 1 & 2:

• Was Martin Luther a reformer or a revolutionary?
• What historical trends made Luther’s efforts succeed where others had failed?
• Compare and contrast the personalities and beliefs of Luther and Erasmus:
• What was Weber’s perspective on the Protestant Reformation?
• Explain how the themes of primitivism, individualism, and emancipation play out in Reformation theology?
• How did secularism emerge from the humanist tradition?
• How did the humanist tradition help to kindle the ‘idea’ of history in a way that hadn’t existed during the medieval era?
• How did the Renaissance change the status of the artist? 
• Although their ideas differed on some issues what themes linked the Eutopians? 
• In what ways did the Renaissance vision impact European exploration and its interaction with the New World?
• How did Montaigne impact the development of self-consciousness?