This volume discusses German historiography from the c. 950 to 1150 through a close examination of six works. In contrast to most earlier scholarship, it focuses on the narrative as an expression of the authors' way of finding meaning in the sequence of events, and as evidence for their understanding of society, politics, and human behaviour. In particular, it is shown that changing attitudes to society are reflected in the different ways the narrative is organized and individuals and their actions are represented. While the earlier works depict a society based on face-to-face relationships,...

This study re-deciphers five central themes in the theology and hermeneutics of Martin Luther. Special attention is given to the fact that Christology enters the theology of the reformer in all its aspects. In addition the study demonstrates how Lutheran theology of the Baroque Age is relevant for a better understanding of Luther's work.

Infiniti contemplatio provides the first thorough inquiry of Zwingli's roots in late medieval, particularly Franciscan, thought - based on an extensive editorial appendix presenting annotations of Zwingli to Duns Scotus, Stephanus Brulefer, the Theologia Damasceni and extracts of Konrad Summenhart and John Eck. After a survey of previous research (part I), the evolution of the Scotistic ideas of actual infinity and formal distinction is traced from high scholasticism via Duns, Mayronis, Ockham, Brulefer, Mair and others up to about 1510 (part II), leading to Zwingli's reception,...

This book condenses and updates the author's two-volume work, The Pseudo-Gregorian Dialogues (Brill, 1987), surveying and clarifying the controversy which that work rekindled. It presents the internal and external evidence showing cogently that the famous book which is the sole source of knowledge about the life of St. Benedict was not written by St. Gregory the Great as is traditionally supposed, but by a later counterfeiter. It makes an essential contribution to the current reassessment of early Benedictine history. It also throws much new light on the life and times of St. Gregory,...

This study deals with Hugo Grotius' famous apologetic work De veritate religionis christianae, the Latin version of a Dutch poem which he wrote in 1620 while imprisoned in Loevestein, entitled Bewijs van den waren godsdienst. The first part of this book examines the genesis of the work and the development of the text. The middle sections give an analysis of the motives that led Grotius to write this work and of the sources he most probably used. The final chapters examine the notes that Grotius added to his work in 1640 and the reception of the work in the author's lifetime. The...