Chips from a German Workshop
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ISBN13: 9780217187817
Paperback|9780217187817
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: m, YE SCHYPPE OF FOOLES1. THE critical periods in the history of the world are best studied in the lives of a few representative men. The history of the German Reformation assumes a living, intelligible, and human character in the biographies of the Reformers; and no historian would imagine that he understood the secret springs of that mighty revolution in Germany without having read the works of Hut ten, the table-talk of Luther, the letters of Melanchthon, and the sermons of Zwingli. But although it is easy to single out representative men in the great decisive struggles of history, they are more difficult to find during the preparatory periods. The years from 1450 to 1500 are as important as the years from 1500 to 1550?nay, to the thoughtful historian, that silent period of incubation is perhaps of deeper interest than the violent outburst of the sixteenth century. But where, during those years, are the men of sufficient eminence t represent the age in which they lived ? It was an age of transition and preparation, of dissatisfaction and hesitation. Like the whole of the fifteenthcentury, ' it was rich in scholars, copious in pedants, but poor in genius, and barren of strong thinkers.' We must not look for heroes in so unheroic an age, but be satisfied with men if they be but a head taller than their contemporaries. 1 Sebastian Brant's ' Narrensclriff.' .Herausgegeben von Fried - rich Zarncke. Leipzig, 1857. One of the most interesting men in whose life and -writings the history of the preliminary age of the German Reformation may be studied, is Sebastian Brant, the famous author of the famous ' Ship of Fools.' He was born in the year 1457. The Council of Basle had failed to fulfil the hopes of the German laity as to a reformatio ecclesiw in capite et membris. In th...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217187817 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217187811 |
| Weight | 0.91 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.63 In |
| List Price | $23.84 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 278 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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