Manifestations of discontent in Germany on the eve of the Reformation : a collection of documents / selected, translated, and introduced, by Gerald Strauss. [print]

Includes bibliographical references.

The reformation of the Emperor Sigismund (c. 1438) ; Berthold von Henneberg's speech to the Diet of Worms (1497) ; The debate with Enea Silvio Piccolomini (1451-1515) ; A German clergyman's criticism of Rome (c. 1451) ; The statement of grievances presented to the Diet of Worms in 1521 Heinrich Bebel's oration in praise of Germany, given before Maximilian I (1501) ; Germans are not barbarians : three chapters from Irenicus' Exegesis Germaniae (1518) ; From Ulrich von Hutten, Arminius : a dialogue taking place in the underworld (c. 1518) ; The lady from Brittany (1491) ; How the mighty rule : three chapters from Reynard the Fox (1498) ; Concerning Power fools or The instability of power : a sermon by Johann Geiler von Kaiserberg on Sebastian Brant's Ship of fools (1498) ; The insolence of ecclesiastical princes (c. 1450) ; A protest by the Bavarian estates against the arrogant conduct of their prince (1514) ; Usury, a dialogue on interest : in which a peasant, a wealthy burgher, a priest, and a monk engage in a disputation on lending, and whether the taking of interest on loans in usury (c. 1521) ; Interest and profiteering : from Johann Agricola's Commentaries on German proverbs (1528) ; How the Jews were driven from Regensburg (1519) ; Trouble among the journeymen furriers of Strassburg Grievances and demands of the craft guilds of Cologne (1513) ; The Articles of the Bundschuh in the Bishopric of Speyer (1502) ; A description of the Bundschuh in Breisgau in 1513 : from Pamphilus Gengenbach's The Bundschuh The arme Konrad : from the statement of grievances drawn up by the territorial Diet of Wu rttemberg (1514) ; Articles of the peasants of Stu hlingen and Lupfen (1525) ; An unsympathetic view of the peasant movement : from Sebastian Franck's chronicle A dialogue spoken by Franz von Sickingen at the gates of heaven with Saint Peter and the knight Saint George (1523) ; Complaints of the knights of Franconia as presented to the estates of the empire (1522) ; The life of a German knight as seen by Ulrich von Hutten (1518) ; Protests against the Roman law in Bavaria and Wu rttemberg (1471-1521) ; From Ulrich von Hutten's The robbers (1521) ; Let everyone conduct himself according to his estate : from Johann Agricola's Commentaries on German proverbs (1528) ; Gluttony and drunkenness : a sermon by Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg on Sebastian Brant's Ship of fools (1498) ; The nuisance of undisciplined mercenary soldiers : from Sebastian Franck's chronicle (1531) ; Religious and social upheaval : the drummer of Niklashausen (1476) ; Sebastian Brant on the inevitable fall of the Holy Roman Empire (1504) ; Reform and redemption : from the Book of one mankind (1534) ; Sebastian Franck on the incurable folly of hundred chapters and forty statutes (c. 1500).

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