Medievalia et Humanistica: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture. New Series, Numbers 1 and 2
Year: 1969
Type: book-review
Abstract: 223. $9.95 each.After a two-year hiatus, Medievalia et Humanistica has resumed publication under new auspices.The editorial policy as established by the founding editor, S. Harrison Thomson (to whom n.s., no. 1, is dedicated), remains unchanged: annual volumes are "devoted ex- clusively to the study of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, with special attention to Latin civilization from A.D. 300 to 1600."In the first two issues of the new series, approximately one-third of the contents may be of interest to readers of Renaissance and Reformation.The 1970 volume opens with Roland H. Sainton's perceptive study of Katherine Zell, the able and assertive wife and cohort of one of the Strasbourg reformers (pp.3-28).The ar- ticle is based both on a thorough assimilation of previous scholarship (helpfully listed in a bibliography) and on an examination of Katherine's six published works and numerous let- ters.(Divested of some of the technical apparatus, this short biography has since been in- cluded in Sainton's Women of the Reformation in Germany and Italy [Minneapolis, 1971].)Another product of mature, thoughtful scholarship is Frederick G. Heymann's "The Hus- site Revolution and the German Peasants' War: An Historical Comparison" (pp.141-160).Although the author modestly bills his endeavor as a "sketch," his indication of areas in
Source: Renaissance and Reformation
Institution: Case Western Reserve University
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2747491215