Kreis, Steven. Lecture 3: The Protestant Reformation. The History Guide: Lectures on Early Modern European History, 6th June, 1999. Web. 3rd August, 2

Part of a lecture series that served as the basis for an upper division European Intellectual History and Western Civilization classes at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton and Davie, Florida and Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina, these pages detail the many changes happening in Europe during the 16th century, especially how they relate to religion. The author discusses in great detail the life and influential acts of Martin Luther spanning from the raising of him from a child to the reasons he felt the church needed a change and what he went through because of the demonstrations he made publically against the doctrine and practice of the church. Also discussed are the belief system created by John Calvin and how both figures had a deep impact on the reformation and religion as we see it today. The page ends with a statement about how Lutheranism spread widely across Scandinavia and Germany, but Calvinism had a deeper impact across all of Europe.