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Mary Kay Rummel was  the first Poet Laureate of Ventura County, CA. Cypher Garden is her eighth published poetry book, her sixth full collection. The Lifeline Trembles, was co-winner of the 2014 Blue Light Press Award. This Body She’s Entered, her first book, won the Minnesota Voices Award for poetry and was published by New Rivers Press in 1989. Her work has appeared in numerous regional and national literary journals and anthologies and has received several awards, including six Pushcart nominations. Mary Kay has...

Wolfgang Capito (1478-1541) was one of the most important figures of the Reformation in Southern Germany, a leading churchman who turned from Catholic to Protestant. A professor of theology and advisor to the Archbishop of Mainz, he moved to Strasbourg and worked for two decades toward the reformation of the city, which became, after Wittenberg, the most active centre of the Reformation movement.

This volume - the second of three - is a fully annotated translation of Capito's existing correspondence, covering the years 1524-31, during which the Reformation took root in Strasbourg. It...

Der spatantike habitus barbarus ist kein Phanomen, das nur mit dem Eindringen volkerwanderungszeitlicher Stamme mitsamt ihrer jeweils charakteristischen Kleidung in das romische Reich zu erklaren ware. Die detaillierte Analyse von Schriftquellen, Bildern und Bodenfunden zeigt, da "unromisches" Aueres in der Spatantike vielmehr zu einem Symbol wurde fur tiefgreifende Veranderungen der romischen Gesellschaft: die Uberlagerung alter, ziviler Eliten durch Aufsteiger aus dem militarischen und administrativen Bereich. Die Kleidung ist ein Spiegel dieser Umwalzungen und somit eine...

This first full-length study of Erasmus' translations of classical literature examines his approach to translation and, more generally, his role as a transmitter of the classics. It traces in chronological order the progress of his Greek studies and the publication history of his translations from Greek into Latin; these included selections from the works of Libanius, Euripides, Plutarch, Lucian, Galen, Isocrates and Xenophon. It also illustrates Erasmus' methods with appropriate examples from his own texts and from those of his predecessors and contemporaries. In so doing it provides an...

The case of Johann Reuchlin, one of the best-known controversies of the 16th century, has been interpreted in many ways: as a case of anti-Semitism, a controversy between humanists and scholastics, or a case foreshadowing the Reformation debate. The last interpretation was facilitated by Luther himself, who repeatedly linked his case with that of the biblical humanists Lefevre, Erasmus, and Reuchlin.

In this lively critical analysis, Erika Rummel describes how the second interpretation, which was promoted in the 19th century, was replaced after WWII by a new sensitivity toward the...