Did the Reformation (1450-1565)
divide Europe?
Protestants- Christians who broke
away from the Catholic Church
John Calvin 1541-1564
• Geneva (Frenchspeaking)
• Stress on order and
rigorous adherence to
God’s law
• Self-discipline and the
“Protestant Work
Ethic”
Calvinism
– Taught predestination
– Simple form of worship
– Emphasis on hard work and moral behaviors
– Calvinism spread rapidly in Switzerland, Holland
(Dutch Reformed Church), France (Huguenots),
England (Puritans)
Scotland
• John Knox- follower
of John Calvin,
established
protestant church
in Scotland,
Presbyterianism
France
• Protestantism made
illegal in France in
1534
• Persecution of the
Huguenots
• War in France
between Catholics
and Protestants
• King Henry and the
Edict of Nantes (1598)