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SYNOPSES, ZUSAMMENFASSUNGEN
his intellectual arguments on the discussion concerning indulgences and on criticism of the
shameless brokering with the power of the keys. For like Václav Tiem and his commissioners
with the indulgences of Pope John XXIII, a hundred years later Tetzel and the Fuggers right
at the beginning gave the indulgences of Pope Leon X (or rather Archbishop Albrecht of
Brandenburg) a bad reputation – and gave Luther grounds for thinking not only about
indulgences but also such fundamental matters as the “extreme conditions” for God’s grace
and salvation (by faith alone).
Key words: Jan Hus, the treatise De Ecclesia, the sale of indulgences, doctrine on the
church, the Council of Constance
UDC 284.1:274:378(430)"16"
Emidio Campi
Was the Reformation a German event?
The present essay argues that the Reformation is too important to be used merely
as the founding myth of a nation, let alone of a confessional hero. It further suggests
that reconsidering the Reformation within the framework of the communalization and
confessionalization paradigms may assist in a more effective study of its theological
tenets and its impact on the rise of early modern Europe, without clinging to ideological
or confessional traditions. Having appealed to history, however, we must also abide by
history. While there are questions we must raise for ourselves and answer by ourselves,
to which the voices of the past may be irrelevant or even fallacious, there are other
questions, and these are the most profound, to answer which the voices of the past may
freshly intervene. Thus, even a working historian ought not to be shocked or surprised
by the perception of the Reformation articulated in 1518 by a (then) obscure Augustin-
ian friar of the Saxon Province: “The church – he said – needs a reformation, but this is
not something for one person, the pope, also not many cardinals, […] but rather for the
entire world, or more correctly, for God alone. The time for such a reformation is known
only by him who created time.”
UDC 726:929 Vergerij P.P.
Dirk Kottke
The lost epitaph of Pier Paolo Vergerio (1489–1565)
Pier Paolo Vergerio the Younger, a papal nuncio, Catholic bishop, a fierce critic of the
papacy and a religious refugee in the Swiss and German lands, was born in the then Vene-
tian town of Capodistria (today Koper/Capodistria in Slovenia) and died in Tübingen,
where he was buried in the famous Stifftskirche. A stone memorial and a wooden epitaph
363
his intellectual arguments on the discussion concerning indulgences and on criticism of the
shameless brokering with the power of the keys. For like Václav Tiem and his commissioners
with the indulgences of Pope John XXIII, a hundred years later Tetzel and the Fuggers right
at the beginning gave the indulgences of Pope Leon X (or rather Archbishop Albrecht of
Brandenburg) a bad reputation – and gave Luther grounds for thinking not only about
indulgences but also such fundamental matters as the “extreme conditions” for God’s grace
and salvation (by faith alone).
Key words: Jan Hus, the treatise De Ecclesia, the sale of indulgences, doctrine on the
church, the Council of Constance
UDC 284.1:274:378(430)"16"
Emidio Campi
Was the Reformation a German event?
The present essay argues that the Reformation is too important to be used merely
as the founding myth of a nation, let alone of a confessional hero. It further suggests
that reconsidering the Reformation within the framework of the communalization and
confessionalization paradigms may assist in a more effective study of its theological
tenets and its impact on the rise of early modern Europe, without clinging to ideological
or confessional traditions. Having appealed to history, however, we must also abide by
history. While there are questions we must raise for ourselves and answer by ourselves,
to which the voices of the past may be irrelevant or even fallacious, there are other
questions, and these are the most profound, to answer which the voices of the past may
freshly intervene. Thus, even a working historian ought not to be shocked or surprised
by the perception of the Reformation articulated in 1518 by a (then) obscure Augustin-
ian friar of the Saxon Province: “The church – he said – needs a reformation, but this is
not something for one person, the pope, also not many cardinals, […] but rather for the
entire world, or more correctly, for God alone. The time for such a reformation is known
only by him who created time.”
UDC 726:929 Vergerij P.P.
Dirk Kottke
The lost epitaph of Pier Paolo Vergerio (1489–1565)
Pier Paolo Vergerio the Younger, a papal nuncio, Catholic bishop, a fierce critic of the
papacy and a religious refugee in the Swiss and German lands, was born in the then Vene-
tian town of Capodistria (today Koper/Capodistria in Slovenia) and died in Tübingen,
where he was buried in the famous Stifftskirche. A stone memorial and a wooden epitaph
363
