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The Case Against Johann Reuchlin

Religious and Social Controversy in Sixteenth-Century Germany

by Erika Rummel

A concise study of the Reuchlin affair, with translated documents from both sides. Rummel examines how the dispute over Jewish books became a public battle between humanists and scholastic theologians on the eve of the Reformation, fought with pamphlets, satire and lawsuits.

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