Western Civilization: Volume II: Since 1500, 9th Edition, Chapter 13 Outline
Reformation and Religious Warfare in the 16th Century Prelude to Reformation Christian or Northern Renaissance Humanism Like the Italian counterparts, northern humanists cultivated a knowledge of the classics who focused on the sources of early Christianity, The Holy Scriptures and the writings of such church fathers as Augustine, Ambrose, and Jerome They felt that in these early Christian writings they found a simple religion that had now been distorted by the complicated theological arguments of the Middle Ages