German Humanism and Reformation: Selected Writings Book

Foreword: Roland H. Bainton

Introduction: Reinhard P. Becker

JOHANN VON TEPL

Death and the Ploughman

Translated by K.W. Maurer

SEBASTIAN BRANT

From The Ship of Fools; Prologue; Chapters 4, 13, 27, 32, 50, 73

Translated by Edwin H. Zeydel

DESIDERIUS ERASMUS

The Praise of Folly

Translation and notes by Robert A. Fowkes

CONRAD CELTIS

Three Poems

Translated by Reinhard P. Becker

MARTIN LUTHER

To The Christian Nobility of the German Nation

Translation and notes by C.M. Jacobs

and revised by James Atkinson

ULRICH VON HUTTEN

From Book of Dialogues: Fever the First

Translated by Robert A. Fowkes

CROTUS RUBIANUS/ULRICH VON HUTTEN

From Letters of Obscure Men: Letters I, 1: I, 37; II, 1

Translated by Francis C. Stokes

THOMAS MUNTZER

Sermon to the Princes (1524)

Well-warranted Speech in My Own Defense (1524)

Manifesto to the Miners (1525)

Translation and notes by Robert A. Fowkes

SEBASTIAN LOTZER

The Twelve Articles of Peasantry (1525)

Translated by Robert A. Fowkes