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The fifteen confederates / Johann Eberlin von Günzburg; edited and translated by Geoffrey Dipple.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eberlin von Günzburg, Johann, approximately 1470-1533, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Fünfzehn Bundesgenossen. English.
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Eberlin von Günzburg, Johann, approximately 1470-1533.
- Eberlin von Günzburg, Johann.
- Pamphlets.
- German literature--Early modern, 1500-1700.
- German literature.
- German literature--Early modern.
- Reformation--Germany--Sources--History and criticism.
- Reformation.
- Germany.
- Reformation--Germany--Sources--Translations into English.
- Genre:
- Sources.
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 193 pages : facsimiles ; 23 cm
- regular print
- Place of Publication:
- Eugene, Oregon : Pickwick Publications, [2014]
- Summary:
- The Fifteen Confederates was published anonymously in the fall of 1521, shortly after Martin Luther's hearing at the Diet of Worms and subsequent disappearance. The fifteen pamphlets that make up the book address religious, social, economic, and political challenges facing the German people. Their author, Johann Eberlin von Günzburg, subsequently became one of the most prolific and popular pamphleteers of the German Reformation. As an important contribution to the pamphlet war that accompanied the beginnings of the Reformation in Germany, The Fifteen Confederates provides us a valuable window on the aspirations and dreams that accompanied Luther's initial calls for reform of the church and society. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- The first confederate: A pitiful complaint to the Christian Emperor Charles concerning Doctor Martin Luther and Ulrich von Hutten. Also concerning the courtiers and mendicant friars. That His Majesty not allow himself to be led astray by such people
- The second confederate: Concerning the forty day fast before Easter and others, and how wretchedly the Christian people are burdened by them
- The third confederate: An admonition to all Christians that they take pity on cloistered women
- The fourth confederate: On the long, wearisome braying which the spiritual monks, priests, and nuns call the canonical hours
- The fifth confederate: An exhortation to all authorities of the German Nation that they reform the pulpit
- The sixth confederate: Erasmus of Rotterdam, a prince among learned men in our age, writes about the preaching of the mendicant friars in the book entitle Encomion Morias
- The seventh confederate: In praise of parish priests
- The eighth confederate: Why Sir Erasmus of Rotterdam is translated into German. Why Martin Luther and Sir Ulrich von Hutten write in German
- The ninth confederate: To all Christian authorities, both worldly and spiritual, of the German Nation, a wretched, fervent lamentation of all God-fearing monks, nuns and priests that one should come to their aid and save them from their unchristian neighbors
- The tenth confederate: New statutes concerning reform of the spiritual estate which Psittacus brought from the land of Wellfaria
- The eleventh confederate: A new ordinance concerning the secular estate written in Wellfaria, as described by Psittacus
- The twelfth confederate: A friendly response of all God-fearing, decent, reasonable people in the German land to the pitiful complaint made to them by those in orders
- The thirteenth confederate: A hopeful exhortation to the upright, honorable, strong, and Christian lords, officials, and subjects of the Common Confederacy (known as the Swiss) that they faithfully help to preserve evangelical teaching and devout Christians
- The fourteenth confederate: Sir Erasmus of Rotterdam reveals in the book Encomion Morias the shameful service we render to the saints
- The fifteenth confederate: To each and every believer in Christ, a wholesome warning to guard against new, dangerous teachings.
- Notes:
- Translation of fifteen pamphlets originally published anonymously in 1521.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-183) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9781625642325
- 1625642326
- OCLC:
- 892198425
- Publisher Number:
- 99960165756
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