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Dialogue and Disputation in the Zurich Reformation: Utz Eckstein’s «Concilium» and «Rychsztag»

Edition, Translation and Study

by Nigel Harris (Author) Joel, Rev. Love (Author)
©2013 Monographs 485 Pages

Summary

This volume contains the first modern critical editions of Concilium (1525) and Rychsztag (1526), two vernacular verse dialogues by the Zurich-based Zwinglian author Utz Eckstein, together with translations of both into English prose. These works are of interest not just for their literary qualities (which differ markedly from those conventionally associated with ‘Reformation dialogues’), but also because of what they reveal about Zwingli’s theological and socio-political priorities in the mid-1520s. Along with many other aspects of the contemporary Swiss context, these features are examined in an introduction and in extensive elucidatory notes. An underlying thread of the authors’ interpretation is that, for all their evident desire to express and establish Evangelical perspectives, the Concilium and Rychsztag make imaginative and constructive use of specifically Swiss traditions of dialogue, which were expressed, for example, both in the consultative decision-making processes of rural communities and in the increasingly influential procedures of the formalized urban disputation.

Details

Pages
485
Publication Year
2013
ISBN (PDF)
9783035305036
ISBN (Softcover)
9783034309608
DOI
10.3726/978-3-0353-0503-6
Language
English
Publication date
2013 (September)
Keywords
English prose context traditions
Published
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2013. 498 pp.

Biographical notes

Nigel Harris (Author) Joel, Rev. Love (Author)

Nigel Harris is Reader in German at the University of Birmingham. His previous publications include editions of the Latin and German Etymachia (1994) and of the Lumen anime C and Ulrich Putsch’s Liecht der sel (2007). Joel Love is a priest in the Church of England, currently working at Lancaster Priory. He studied French and German at Birmingham and Theology at Cambridge, and his doctoral dissertation on Utz Eckstein was successfully completed in 2008.

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Title: Dialogue and Disputation in the Zurich Reformation: Utz Eckstein’s «Concilium» and «Rychsztag»