The Legend of Faust, Part I


      1. Renaissance, Reformation, and the Heyday of the Devil
        1. The Clash of Worldviews
        2. The Players: protestants (Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, Melanchthon), radical protestants (Muntzer), roman catholics and the Counter Reformation (Loyola, Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross), humanists (Erasmus, Pico de Mirandola), aristotelianism, material (empirical) science, and hermetic magic (alchemy)
        3. The Witch Craze
        4. The Malleus maleficarum(1486)
      2. Martin Luther (1483-1546), Wittenberg & the Reformation
        1. Who was Martin Luther?
        2. "Here I stand": A clip from Irving Pichel's Martin Luther (1953)
        3. Sola scriptura and sola fides
        4. Erasmus's De libero arbitrio (1524) vs. Luther's De servo arbitrio (1525)
        5. The Importance of the Devil to Luther: Nulles diabolus nullus redemptor
        6. Luther's Strategies for Combating the Devil
      3. Luther, the Devil and the Sacrament of Marriage
        1. Luther marries Katharina von Bora (1525)
        2. Marriage as provocation
        3. Marriage as protection
      4. Johan or Georg: Who was Faust? (born 1480)
        1. Historical evidence
        2. Die Historia von D. Iohan Fausten, edited by Spiess (1587) and The History of the Damnable Life, and Deserued Death of Doctor Iohn Faustus (1592)
        3. Two texts in one: Problems of interpretation