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§ 14. General Literature on the Reformation. SOURCES.
I. On the Protestant side: (1) The works of the Rrrormers, especially LutHer, MELANCHTHON, ZwINGLI, CALVIN, CRANMER, Knox. They will be quoted in the chapters relating to their history.
(2) Contemporary Historians: Jon. ὅ ΕΑΝ (Prof. of law in Strassburg, ἃ. 1556): De Statu Religionis et Retpublice Carolo V. Cesare commentarii. Libri XX VI. Argentor. 1555 fol., best ed. by Am Ende, Francof. ad M. 1785- 86, 3 vols. Engl. transl. by Bohun, London, 1689, 3 vols. fol. French transl. with the notes of Le Courayer, 1767. Embraces the German and Swiss Reformation.
The Annales Reformationis of SPALATIN, and the Historia Reformationis of Fr, MYcoNnrvs, refer only to the Lutheran Reformation. So, also, LOSCHER’S valuable collection of documents, 3 vols. See below § 15.
II. Roman Catholic: (1) Official documents. Leonis X. P. M. Regesta, ed. by Cardinal HERGENROTHER under the auspices of Pope Leo XIII.; from the Vatican archives. Freiburg i. B. 1884 sqq., 12 fascic. The first three parts contain 884 pages to A. D. 1514. — Monumenta Reformationis Lutherane ex tabulariis secretioribus δ. Sedis, 1521-25, ed. by Petrus BALAN, Ratisbone, 1884 (589 pages). Contains the acts relating to the Diet of Worms, with the reports of Aleander, the papal legate, and the letters of Clement VII. from 1523-25, It includes a document of 1513, heretofore unknown, which disproves the illegitimate birth of Clement VII. and represents him as the son of Giuliano de Medici and his wife, Floreta. Monwmenta Seculi XVI. Historiam illustrantia, ed. by BALAN, vol. I. Oeniponte, 1885 (489 pages).
(2) Controversial writings: Jon. Eck (d. 1563): Contra Ludderum, 1530. 2 Parts fol. Polemical treatises on the Primacy, Penance, the Mass, Purgatory, etc. Jo. CocHi~mus (canon of Breslau, ἃ. 1552): Commentaria de Actis et Scriptis Lutheri ab Anno Dom. 1517 ad A. 1547 fideliter conscripta. Mogunt. 1549 fol.; Par. 1565; Colon. 1568.—LaAur. Surtus (a learned Carthusian, d. at Cologne, 1578): Commentarius rerum in orbe gestarum ab a. 1500- 1564. Colon. 1567, Against Sleidan.
HISTORICAL REPRESENTATIONS. I. Protestant works.
(1) The respective sections in the General Church Histories of ScHROcKE (Kirchengesch. seit der Reformation, Leipzig, 1804~12, 10 vols.), MosHErm, GIEsELER (Bd. III. Abth. I. and 11., 1840 and 1852; Engl. transl. N. Y. vols. IV. and V., 1862 and 1880), Baur (Bd. IV. 1863), HaGensaAcu (vol. ITI., also separately publ. 4th ed. 1870; Engl. transl. by Miss Eveline Moore, Edinburgh, 1878, 2 vols.; especially good on the Zwinglian Reformation). More briefly treated in the compends of GuERICKE, NIEDNER, HasE (11th ed. 1886), EBRARD, HeERzoe (vol. I[Ird), Kurrz (10th ed. 1887, vol. IInd).
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All these works pay special attention to the Continental Reformation, but very little to that of England and Scotland.
Neander comes down only to 1430; his lectures on modern church history (which I heard in 1840) were never published. Gieseler’s work is most valuable for its literature down to 1852, and extracts from the sources, but needs an entire reconstruction, which is contemplated by Prof. Brieger at Leipzig.
(2) Jean Henrt MERLE p’AUBIGNE (usually miscalled Γ᾽ Aubigné, which is simply an addition indicating the place of his ancestors, d. 1872): Histoire de la réformation du 16. siécle, Paris, 1835-’53, 5 vols., 4th ed. 1861 sqq.; and Histoire de la réformation en Europe au temps du Calvin, Par., 1863~’78, 8 vols. (including a posthumous vol.). Also in German by Runkel (Stuttgart, 1848 sqq.), and especially in English (in several editions, some of them mutilated). Best Engl. ed. by Longman, Green & Co., London, 1865 sqq.; best Am. ed. by Carter, New York, 1870-79, the first work in 5, the second in 8 vols. Merle’s History, owing to its evangelical fervor, intense Protestantism and dramatic eloquence, has had an enormous circulation in England and America through means of the Tract Societies and private publishers.
H. Stespine: History of the Reformation, London, 1836, 2 vols.
G. WADDINGTON (Anglican, d. 1869): A History of the Reformation on the Continent. London, 1841, 3 vols. (Only to the death of Luther, 1546.)
F. A. HouzHavuzen: Der Protestantismus nach seiner geschichtl. Entstehung, Begriindung und Fortbildung. Leipzig, 184659, 3 vols. Comes down to the ‘Westphalian Treaty. The author expresses his standpoint thus (III, XV.): “ Die christliche Kirche ist threr Natur nach wensentlich Eine, und der kirchliche Aujlésungs-process, welcher durch die Reformation herbeigefiihrt worden ist, kann keinen anderen Zweck haben, als ein neues hoheres positives Kirchenthum herzustellen.”
B. TER Haar (of Utrecht): Die Reformationsgeschichtein Schilderungen. Transl. from the Dutch by C. Gross. Gotha, 5th ed. 1856, 2 vols,
Dan. SCHENKEL (d. 1885): Die Reformatoren und die Reformation. Wiesbaden, 1856. Das Wesen des Protestantismus aus den Quellen des Ref. zeitalters. Schaffhausen, 1862, 3 vols.
CHARLES Harpwick (Anglican, ἃ. 1859): .A History of the Christian Church during the Reformation. Cambridge and London, 1856. Third ed. revised by W. Stubbs (bishop of Chester), 1873.
J. Tu~Locn (Scotch Presbyt., d. 1886): Leaders of the Reformation: Luther, Calvin, Latimer, Knox. Edinb., 1859 ; 3d ed. 1883.
L. Havsser (d. 1867): Geschichte des Zeitalters der Reformation, 1517-1648. Ed. by Oncken, Berlin, 1868 (867 pages). Abridged Engl. transl. by Mrs. Sturge, N. Y., 1874. }
E. L. Ta. HEnKE (d. 1872): Neuere Kirchengesch. Ed. by Dr. Gass, Halle, 1874, 2 vols. The first vol. treats of the Reformation.
Fr. SEEBOHM: The Era of the Protestant Revolution. London and N. York, 1874,