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...