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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 November 2011
In treating the history of the Reformation, I am especially indebted to the material gathered by Dr. Preserved Smith under the title, ‘A Decade of Luther Study,’ in this Review for April, 1921 (pp. 107–135). This enables me to be brief in dealing with the general literature of the subject, but as Dr. Smith in many cases gave only references without comment, and as he was not able to include the Scandinavian literature, at least a few works of special value must be noted here.
1 My thanks are due to Dr. N. Bakhuizen van den Brink of Nieuw Dortrecht, for Holland; Dr. Valdemar Ammundsen, now Bishop of Hadersleben in Schleswig, for Denmark; Professor Sigmund Mowinckel of Christiania, for Norway; and Lic. theol. Hilding Fleyel of Lund, for Sweden.
2 I would call attention also to the small and inexpensive but trustworthy volumes of the “Quellenbücher” recently published by Voigtländer in Leipzig: No. 40, Die hugenottischen Martyrer von Lyon und Johannes Calvin; 42, Lutherbildnisse; 68, Myconius, Gescbichte der Reformation; 71 and 81, Der deutsche Bauernkrieg in seitgenössischen Quellenzeugnissen; 73, Luther und der Wormser Reichstag 1521.
3 A survey of Kalkoff's books and articles down to 1918 will be found in my review in the Theologische Studien und Kritiken 96, 1918, pp. 144–155. Of his late monographs the most important are his book on Hutten (infra, p. 16) and his definitive treatise on the Diet of Worms, viii, 482 pp., Munich and Berlin, Oldenbourg, 1922.
4 As a supplement, see the same author's address, Die Bedeutung der Reformation für die politische Entwicklung, 38 pp., Leipzig, Teubner, 1018.
5 Since the main emphasis of Göller's book is on the late Middle Ages, it retains its value even though Nikolaus Paulus, our highest authority in this field, has at last gathered into a single work his numerous scattered studies on the subject of indulgences, Die Geschichte des Ablasses im Mittelalter vom Ursprunge bis zur Mitte des XIV. Jahrhunderts, 2 vols.; xii, 392 pp.; iii, 364 pp.; Münster, Aschendorff, 1922.
6 During the War a “Gesellschaft zur Ausgabe des Corpus Catholicorum,” that is, the works of Catholic writers “im Zeitalter der Glaubensspaltung,” was founded at the instance of Professor Joseph Greving of Münster. Since his death in 1919 the work has been taken up by Stephan Ehses, director of the Roman Institute of the Görres-Gesellschaft. Five numbers have been issued, Heft 1, Eck, and Heft 3, Cochlaeus, falling within the period of this survey. Heft 2 (1921) contains Eck, Epistola de ratione studiorum suorunt (1523) and Erasmus Wolph, De obitu Johannis Eckii (1543), edited by Johannes Metzler (viii, 106 pp.); Heft 4 (1922), Hieronymus Emser, De disputatione Lipsiensi, quantum ad Boemos obiter deflexa est, and A venatione Luteriana aegrocerotis assertio (1519), edited by Franz Xaver Thurnhofer (viii, 112pp.); Heft 5 (1922), Kaspar Schatzgeyer (Bavarian Franciscan), Scrutinium divinae scripturae pro conciliatione dissidentium dogmatum (1522), edited by Ulrich Schmidt (xxviii, 179 pp.). The critical principles of the series are fully explained in the first number.
7 This last mentioned volume, the 18th of the series, has since appeared, edited, after the death of Flemming, by Otto Albrecht (xiv, 198 pp., 1923).
8 Volume LIII, Die Lieder Luthers, edited by W. Lucke (xii, 634 pp.), was published in 1923.
9 The first two volumes of this Life, which emphasized especially Luther's influence on German civilization, appeared in 1895 and 1898, the third and last (x, 370 pp.) in 1921.
10 See Müller's latest publications and Robert H. Pfeiffer's notice of them in this Review, vol. XV, 1022, pp. 297–299.
11 Two university professors bear the name Paul Althaus, the father at Leipzig and the son at Rostock. Our author is the latter.
12 The second volume of these letters, coming down to 1526, has appeared more recently (271 pp., 1921). The work cannot he finished until the publication of the letters in the Corpus is completed.
13 Since 1920 Köhler has more than once treated of Zwingli in print. One publication I will mention here, because it may easily be overlooked and yet is of special note: Huldrych Zwingli's Bibliothek (84. Neujahrblatt zum Besten des Waisenhauses in Zurich. 34, 51 pp. Zürich, Beer, 1921). With meticulous industry a catalogue has been compiled of about 320 works which Zwingli can be proved to have known or used, and which thus for a shorter or longer time he must have had in his library. There is an excellent explanatory introduction.
14 Works relating to the local church history of Holland are mentioned in the bibliography of the Nederlandsch Archief voor Kerkegeschiedenis.
15 For this reason Hefele's Konziliengeschichte, which Cardinal Hergenröther undertook to carry on, stopped with the ninth volume (1890), coming down only to the time of Paul III (1536).
16 The publishers have since announced that the last volume of the Acta has been printed and will be issued shortly.
17 Meanwhile Pastor has found time to prepare a revised and enlarged edition of Vols. I and II, which was to be published in 1923.
18 The publishers have issued the corresponding chapter of Vol. VI in a special illustrated edition with the title. Die Stadt Rom zu Ende der Renaissance, xx, 136 pp., 102 figs., 1 plan, 1916.
19 Böhmer has published in the Sitzungsberichte of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften (73, 1. Leipzig, Teubner, 1921), a study on ‘Loyola und die deutsche Mystik,’ which is noteworthy, as this connection has never before been examined. It appears here that although Loyola proceeded from the school of mysticism and was governed in his later life by the admonitions of his early spiritual guides, yet as an historical character he stands nearer to men like John Wesley and William Booth than to Ludolf of Saxony and Thomas à Kempis.
20 The first volume of this edition of the letters appeared in 1896 (Herder) and the seventh in 1921, while the eighth was expected in 1923. Of the biography, the second edition was published in 1921.