HIST-308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 75: Free Imperial City, John Calvin, Huldrych Zwingli
7 Apr 2020
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The english reforms was partially a lutheran movement. There was also an alternative influence on england. Calvinism emerged only at a later stage of the continental reformation. To understand how it differed from lutheranism, we go back to its founder. That would be jean calvin: getting to calvin. Strasbourg was a free imperial city on the border between the hre and france. Because of its location, it was uniquely positioned as a crossroads between different movements on the continent. Calvin was in strasbourg and geneva: bucer in strasbourg. Bucer spent time there before heading to england. It had been a haven for controversial theologies. It was less constricted than the hre to the east: bucer an outlier. Bucer was a bit of an outlier in strasbourg. Since he was a german living in a francophone city. His loyal lutheran credentials were not entirely shared by the french humanists and free thinkers: strasbourg figures.
