Confraternities. See Brotherhoods.

Consistorial Courts, mediæval, 412.

Consistories in the Lutheran Church,

their beginnings, 410;

of Wittenberg, 412-415.

Consolidation, the political idea of the Renaissance, 19, 43.

Constance, the city, 309, 346, 368;

Council of. See Council.

Constantinople, 19.

Constitutiones Johanninæ, 9.

Continuity of the religious life during the Reformation period, 122.

Contritio, 201, 222 f.

Copernicus, 42.

Cordus, Curicius, Humanist, 255.

Corpus Christi Processions, 119, 362.

Cotta, Frau, 195, 427.

Council, a General, the seat of authority in the Church, 265;

demanded, 342;

Charles v. resolves upon a, 372, 383;

of Basel, 6, 23, 140, 254, 259;

of Constance, 140, 226, 254, 259, 268, 290;

of Trent, 148, 225, 383, 455.

Council, a German, 321, 323 f., 379.

Cradle hymn, a, 121.

Cranach, Lucas, 63, 308, 369.

Cromwell, Thomas, 374.

Crotus Rubeanus (Johann Jaeger of Dornheim), a Humanist, 66, 75, 255.

Cujus regio ejus religio, 397.

Cup, the, for the laity, 343, 437.

Curia, the Roman, the universal court of ecclesiastical appeal, 14 f.;

sale of offices in, 15;

counted on the devotion of the Germans, 115; 245, 255, 265 f., 321, 332 n.

Cusanus, Cardinal Nicholas, 57 f.

Cuspinian of Vienna, Luther writes to him from Worms, 283.

Dalmatia, 19.

Dante and the Renaissance, 47.

Dantzig, churches in, 116.

Decretals, forged, 2; Luther studies the, 235.

Decretum of Gratian, 2, 44.

Denmark, Reformation in, 388, 418, 420.

Deusdedit, a canonist, 2.

Deutsche Theologie, 155.

Deventer, the school at, 51, 64.

Devotional literature circulated by the Brethren, 155.

Diet, the feudal Council of the German Empire, of Worms (1521), 262 ff., 267, 278, 284 ff., 296 f., 304, 341;

of Nürnberg (1522-23), 321, 403;

of Speyer (1524), 324, 403;

of Augsburg (1525), 341;

of Speyer (1526), 341, 398, 403, 404, 415;

of Speyer (1529), 345, 396;

of Augsburg (1530), 360, 363 ff.;

of Nürnberg (1532), 374 f.;

of Augsburg (1555), 395 ff.

Dionysius the Areopagite, 169.

Dispensations, fees for, 13, 382 n.

Disputations, university, 311 f.

Dominican Order, 70, 137, 306, 321.

Dominicans demand the destruction of Hebrew literature, 70 f.

Donation of Constantine, 49.

Dormi secure, 117.

Dringenberg, Ludwig, 52.

Drinking habits of the Germans, 87 f.

Dunkeld, disputed succession in the See of, 10.

Dürer, Albert, 31, 62, 63, 88, 90;

appeals to Erasmus, 188;

on Luther's piety, 191;

his admiration for Luther, 256;

grief at report of Luther's death, 296.

Eberlin of Gunzberg, John, controversial writer, 304 f., 310.

Ebernberg, the, castle of Francis V., Sickingen, 262, 273.

Eccius dedolatus, 249 n.

Eck, John, Official of the Archbishop of Trier, 278, 280, 281, 283, 285, 290.

Eck, John Mayr of, professor at Ingolstadt, 235 f., 247, 303, 368.

Economic changes at the close of the Middle Ages, 43, 80 f., 108 f.

Egypt, 18.

Ehrenberg, the Pass of, 393.

Eisenach, 193, 198.

Eisleben, 193, 385.

Electors, the German, 35, 270;

accustomed to exercise the jus episcopale, 140.

Elizabeth, Queen of England, 6 n., 398 n.

Elizabeth, St., 195, 198.

Elsass and the Peasants' War, 334, 338.

Emmerich, school at, 52.

Emser, Jerome, 185, 337.

Emperor, the Vicar of God, 31.

Empire, German, elective, 35;

attempts to frame a Common Council (Reichsregiment), 36 f.;

extent of the, 36.

England, consolidation of, under the Tudors, 7, 20.

Eoban of Hesse (Helius Eobanus Hessus), 66, 255.

Episcopate weakened by the Papacy, 14.

Epistolæ obscurorum virorum, 67, 72 f., 74.

Erasmici, 255.

Erasmus, 52, 67, 71, 74, 156, 164, 171, 266 n., 273, 288, 299;

a typical Christian Humanist, 172; visit to England, 172, 177;

his conception of a reformation, 172 ff.;

his Christian Philosophy, 173;

desire for the Scriptures in the vernacular, 174;

Sancte Socrates, ora pro nobis, 175, 253;

dislike to Augustinian theology, 167, 185;

writings in aid of the Reformation, 179;

on saint worship, 180;

on the monastic life, 180 f.,

estimate of Luther, 185, 253, 301.