The Case Against Johann Reuchlin : : Social and Religious Controversy in Sixteenth-Century Germany / / Erika Rummel.

• VerfasserIn: Rummel, Erika,
• MitwirkendeR: Pfefferkorn, Johann,; Reuchlin, Johann,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)

The case of Johann Reuchlin, one of the best-known controversies of the 16th century, has been interpreted in many ways: as a case of anti-Semitism, a controversy between humanists and scholastics, or a case foreshadowing the Reformation debate. The last interpretation was facilitated by Luther hims...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• PREFACE Cultural Bias and Historiography
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• CHRONOLOGY The Reuchlin Affair
• PART A - THE REUCHLIN AFFAIR IN CONTEXT
• CHAPTER 1. Pfefferkorn and the Battle against Judaism
• CHAPTER 2. Reuchlin and the Scholastic Theologians
• CHAPTER 3. Reuchlin and the Luther Affair
• CHAPTER 4. Sixteenth-Century Interpretations of the Reuchlin Affair: Beliefs or Constructs?
• CHAPTER 5. The Reuchlin Affair in Modern Historiography
• Notes
• PART B - TEXTS
• DOCUMENT 1. The Enemy of the Jews
• DOCUMENT 2. The Confession of the Jews
• DOCUMENT 3. Report about the Books of the Jews
• DOCUMENT 4. Defence against the Cologne Slanderers
• DOCUMENT 5. Letters of Obscure Men
• DOCUMENT 6. Reports on the Confiscation of Jewish Books in Frankfurt, 1509
• DOCUMENT 7. Two Reports by the Faculty of Theology at Cologne
• DOCUMENT 8. Willibald Pirckheimer's Defence of Reuchlin, 1517
• DOCUMENT 9. Two Letters from Erasmus Concerning the Reuchlin Affair
• DOCUMENT 10. The Dedicatory Letter of Reuchlin's De arte cabalistica, 1517
• DOCUMENT 11. Jacob Hoogstraten, Information to the Reader, 1519
• DOCUMENT 12. Hutten's Letters to Erasmus and Reuchlin, 1520/1
• DOCUMENT 13. Two Comments by Luther on the Historical Context of the Reuchlin Affair
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX