Literary Collections Ancient, Classical & Medieval
The Correspondence of Wolfgang Capito
Volume 2: 1524-1531
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2010
- Category
- Ancient, Classical & Medieval, Medieval
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780802099556
- Publish Date
- Jan 2010
- List Price
- $225.00
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Wolfgang Capito (1478-1541) was one of the most important figures of the Reformation in Southern Germany, a leading churchman who turned from Catholic to Protestant. A professor of theology and advisor to the Archbishop of Mainz, he moved to Strasbourg and worked for two decades toward the reformation of the city, which became, after Wittenberg, the most active centre of the Reformation movement.
This volume - the second of three - is a fully annotated translation of Capito's existing correspondence, covering the years 1524-31, during which the Reformation took root in Strasbourg. It was characterized by the strenuous efforts of Capito and his fellow reformer Martin Bucer to enlist the support of the city council in establishing an evangelical church, to vanquish Catholic opponents in court, in polemical writings and public disputations. The same years also saw disputes among the reformers over the interpretation of the Eucharist. Erika Rummel's head- and footnotes provide historical context by identifying classical, patristic, and biblical quotations as well as persons and places.
This volume continues in the tradition of rigorous scholarship established by the first, providing crucial details on the evolution of Capito's thought to Reformation scholars.
About the authors
Erika Rummel has taught at the University of Toronto and WLU, Waterloo. She has lived in big cities (Los Angeles, Vienna) and small villaes in Argentina, Romania, and Bulgaria. She has written extensively on social history, translated the correspondence of inventor Alfred Nobel, the humanist Erasmus, and the Reformer Wolfgang Capito. She is the author of a number of historical novels, most recently The Road to Gesualdo and The Inquisitor's Niece, which was judged best historical novel of the year by the Colorado Independent Publishers' Association. In 2018 the Renaissance Society of America honoured her with a lifetime achievement award. She divides her time between living in Toronto and Santa Monica, California. The Loneliness of the Time Traveller is her eighth novel.
Milton Kooistra is a Fellow at the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies at the University of Toronto.
Editorial Reviews
‘Rummel’s opus, meticulously researched, edited, and contextualized like her earlier work on Erasmus, is clearly manufactured for the experts or for those interested in major themes as well as minutiae of the early phases of the German and Swiss Reformation… It is an eminently welcome and completely necessary addition to our knowledge base.’
Neo-Latin News, vol 60:3-4:2012
‘This excellent project takes us to the heart of Wolfgang Capito’s work as a reformer in Strasburg… This splendid volume, the second of the three that will carry this project through to the end of Capito’s life.’
Andrew Pettegree, <em>The Catholic Historical Review: vol 97:02:11</em>
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The Correspondence of Wolfgang Capito
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