Explain what this rationalization means, and how it shapes the Protestant ethic, particularly in its later Calvinist and Puritan forms, with respect to economic questions.

In The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Max Weber interprets the development from Catholicism to Lutheranism to Calvinism (and on towards 20th-century capitalism) as part of a process of a “rationalization of the world” (Weber, p. 71). Explain what this rationalization means, and how it shapes the Protestant ethic, particularly in its later Calvinist and Puritan forms, with respect to economic questions. In a second step, connect your explanation to either (a.) the Drer engraving “Melencolia 1” (1514); or (b.) Hans Sachs’ play The Wandering Scholar from Paradise (1550), and explain how references to rationality figure in these 16th-century works.

Please refer directly to Webers text (page numbers or short parenthetical quotes, no extended quotations), and also discuss at least two specific aspects of the Drer engraving (if you choose (a.)) or two passages from Sachs’ play (if you choose (b.)). You may choose to incorporate references to secondary sources, but I am not requiring you to do so. If you do, please be sure to properly cite your sources and to include a Works Cited page.

Please write about 700 words; you may slightly exceed this amount if it helps you advance a better argument, but writing more for the sake of writing more will not help your grade. Please note your word count in the header of your paper, along with your name

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