Chapter 2
Notes This is what Conrad Hubert, Bucer's lifelong secretary, reports in his foreword to 23.
Bucer's Scripta anglicana fere omnia (Basel, 1577), fol. A 2°.
. Bucer owned Latin books at the time of entry into the order (see BDS 1, p.160,24-25).
Knowledge of Latin was a prerequisite for admission into a Dominican monastery. See also Greschat, "Dominikanermonch," pp. 34-35, n. 23.
25. Adam, L'humanisme, p. 36.
. Knepper, Schulund Unterrichtswesen, p. 281.
. For this and the following, see my article in note 24, above, and the abundant literature mentioned there.
28. See Greschat, "Dominikanermonch," pp. 30-31, n. 2.
29. Gény, Reichsstadt, pp. 17 1ff.; Gebwiler, Schlettstadter Chronik, pp. 15-16; Lohr, "Akten," pp. 250ff. and 265.
30. I believe that this information gives me good reason to date Bucer's entry into the monastery somewhat more precisely than Jean Rott does, who cautiously dates it somewhere between 1506 and 1507 (BCor 1, pp. 155-56, n. 6).
31. BDS 1, p. 161,19-20.
32. Gény, Reichsstadt, p. 171.
33. Jacobus de Voragine, Golden Legend, vol. 4, pp. 178-80; Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea, vol. 1, pp. 707-8.
34. BCor 1, no. 2, pp. 42-58. See also Greschat, "Biicherverzeichnis."
Sob Dor paeou,cou 36. For the details, see my article mentioned in note 24, above.
37. Bebel, Opusculum.
38. See my article mentioned in note 24, above.
39. Ritter, Histoire de Pimprimerie alsacienne, p. 168; Schmidt, Histoire littéraire de l'Alsace;
Rott, "Note sur 'imprimerie alsacienne"; Chrisman, Lay Culture.
Chapter 2 1. A wealth of information on Heidelberg and its university are provided by Doerr, ed.,
Semper Apertus; Musall and Scheuerbrandt, "Bild und Struktur"; Ritter, Heidelberger
Universitat.
2. On the details, see Greschat, "Dominikanermonch," as well as the references in BCor
Pesp. 002, 3. Doerr, ed., Semper Apertus, vol. 5, pp. 336-37; Lossen, "Dominikanerkloster Heidelberg."
4. Edited in BCor 1, no. 2. The edition of Bucer's correspondence has outdated several items edited in BDS 1 and 2. See also Greschat, "Biicherverzeichnis."
. BCor 1, no. 11 (March 19, 1520), p. 104,49-50.
. Regarding this topic, also see Augustijn, Erasmus von Rotterdam, who offers ample bibliographical information.
. Bucer, De vera ecclestarum in doctrina, ceremoniis et disciplina reconciliatione et compositione,
[Strasbourg] 1542, bb 4".
. BCor I, no. 4, September 14, 1518, p. 74, ll. 42ff. See also no. 5, March 10, 1519, Ded; ll. 26-27.
. BCor I, no. 7, January 15, 1520, pp. 89-90, Il. 145-46; no. 9, January 23, 1520, p. 100, ll. LOOff.
Luther's theses are edited in WA 1, pp. 353-74; StA 1, pp. 186-218; English translation:
Luther's Works, trans. J. Pelikan and H. Lehmann, vol. 31, pp. 39-70; Bucer's report is
10.
Notes
in BCor 1, no. 3, May 1, 1518. See also Scheible, "Universitat Heidelberg"; Greschat,
"Anfange"; Greschat, "Ansatz."
. StA 1, pp. 210,21-211,4; WA 1, p. 364,4-16. pbtaor lp. 62,)197. mEcomiap.o Lilo 4it . BCor 1, no. 6, July 30, 1519, p. 81, Il. 43ff; no. 8, January 23, 1520, p. 93, Il. 35 ff.
. Erasmus of Rotterdam, Collected Works, vol. 66, pp. 93-94; Erasmus von Rotterdam: Ausgewablite Schriften, vol. 1, pp. 268-70.
. Geiger, Reuchlin, esp. pp. 203 ff.
. BCor 1, p. 78, ll. 26ff.
¢ BCor 1, no. 22, pp. 131-32, note 6.
. BCor 1, no. 6, July 30, 1519, p. 82, ll. 61-62.
. BCor 1, no. 14.
. BCor 1, no. 17, September 19, 1520, p. 118, ll. 22ff.
. BCor 1, no. 18.
Boteomleno. J psl48notre 14. abo sn6733.
. Otto Brunfels, in a letter to Beatus Rhenanus, March 18, 1520, BCor 1, no. 11, p. 104, note 19. Papal Nuncio Girolamo Aleander portrays Bucer in similar terms ("giovine, di un capo terribile brongino"), BCor 1, no. 31, p. 148, note 14.
On Sickingen, see Ulmann, Sickingen; Press, "Adel, Reich und Reformation"; Hitchcock, Background of the Knight's Revolt, Schauder, "Martin Bucer und Franz Sickingen."
Holborn, Hutten, provides a general treatment of this subject; see also Rott, "Ulrich de
Hutten"; Greschat, "Bucer und Hutten."
Edited in BDS 1, pp. 379-495. Bucer is presented there as the author of both these pamphlets.
Bucer's report of this meeting and Aleander's account of it are offered in BCor 1, no. 32.
See also Reuter, ed., Reichstag zu Worms.
On this point, see the Deutsche Reichstagsakten, Jiingere Reihe. Deutsche Reichstagsakten unter Kaiser Karl V,, vol. 2: Der Reichstag zu Worms 1521, ed. Adolf Wrede (Gotha:
26. oy:
28.
29.
30.
EF. A. Perthes, 1896; reprint, Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1962).
After Ludwig V's death in March 1544, Frederick would become Elector Palatine as Frederick II until 1556.
BDS 1, p. 180, 11f.
BCor 1, no. 36 (May 27, 1521).
BCor 1, no. 37 (August 27, 1521), p. 172,55¢.
See BCor 1, no. 42 (July 7, 1522); Rott, "Réforme a Nuremberg"; Pollet I, pp. 12-16.
BDS 1, p. 173,21 ff. A document of April 14, 1518, in the Landesarchiv Speyer (C 49/34) informs of Sickingen's patronage rights. I am grateful to Theodor Knocke of ImmenBL a2, ei Be.
33s a0:
-stadt for this information.
On Wissembourg (German name: Weissenburg), see Landsmann, Wissembourg; Schweer, Weissenburg im Elsass.
This settlement does not appear to have been permanent. The Schlettenbach contract op 38.
(see below) restored the earlier status quo. On this, see BCor 1, pp. 89-90, note 27; p. 192, note 5.
On this see Rott, "Bauernkrieg und Stadt Weissenburg."
BDS 1, pp. 69-147.
32.
40.