LEOPOLD RANKE
HISTORY
OF THE
REFORMATION IN
GERMANY. <...>
HISTORY
OF THE
REFORMATION IN
GERMANY. <...> It is, perhaps, necessary to offer some apology for the
space occupied by the notes, in consequence of the plan I have
adopted in respect of a large portion of them. <...> The German
authorities cited are chiefly contemporaneous — many of them
imprinted, and drawn from different parts of the vast empire
through which the German tongue is spoken. <...> They abound in
obsolete and provincial forms — if indeed the word provincial
can be applied to any of the varieties of a language, no one of
which then claimed a metropolitan authority, — and present
difficulties, which even a German, if unprepared by special
studies, often finds, to say the least, extremely perplexing. <...> To secure the reader, therefore, against any errors I may
have fallen into, and in order that, if important, they may be
pointed out, I have placed the original within reach. <...> I hope the
translations may give some idea of the light these notes throw
on individual as well as national character. <...> We find in them one
source of the vigour and animation of the portraits, and the
dramatic vivacity of the scenes, with which this history
abounds. <...> I have much greater need of the indulgent construction
of the reader in behalf of some few notes, which I have ventured to add. <...> Nothing but my own belief, and the assurance of
others, that they were absolutely necessary to the understanding
of certain passages in the work, would have induced me to risk
such a departure from my proper province. <...> Words
analogous in form, or allied in origin, generally express a to4
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tally different set of acts or functions in different countries, and
can therefore only mislead. <...> Being compelled to endeavour to affix some tolerably distinct notions to the words of
this class which I had to interpret, I ventured to think that the
little information I had gathered for myself might not be unacceptable to the less learned of my readers. <...> I may perhaps be allowed to say, in extenuation of any
defects in the translation, that I have found <...>
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HISTORY
OF THE
REFORMATION IN
GERMANY.
BY
LEOPOLD RANKE
SECOND EDITION.
TRANSLATED Y SARAH AUSTIN.
VOL. I.
LONDON:
LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS,
PATERNOSTER-ROW.
1845.
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London:
Printed by A. Srorriswood, New-Street-Square
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CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME
CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME..........................1
TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE. ...........................................4
AUTHOR'S PREFACE.......................................................6
HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION IN GERMANY13
INTRODUCTION...........................................................13
VIEW OF THE EARLY HISTORY F GERMANY.....13
CAROLINGIAN TIMES. .............................................16
SAXON AND FRANKIC EMPERORS. .......................23
EMANCIPATION OF THE PAPACY..........................32
RELATION OF THE PAPACY TO THE PRINCES OF
THE EMPIRE............................................................................37
FIRST ATTEMPTS AT RESISTANCE TO THE
ENCROACHMENTS OF THE PAPACY. ..................................44
ALTERED CHARACTER OF THE EMPIRE..............49
STATE OF GERMANY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE
FIFTEENTH CENTURY ...........................................................58
BOOK I...............................................................................73
ATTEMPT TO REFORM THE CONSTITUTION OF
THE EMPIRE. 1486–1517........................................................73
BOOK I...............................................................................74
ATTEMPT TO REFORM THE CONSTITUTION OF
THE EMPIRE. 1486–1517........................................................74
FOUNDATION OF A NEW CONSTITUTION. ..........76
DIET OF WORMS, 1495. ...........................................91
DIFFICULTIES. — DIET OF LINDAU, 1496..........102
DIET OF WORMS AND FREIBURG, 1497, 1498. ..110
EVENTS OF THE WAR. ...........................................116
DIET OF AUGSBURG, AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.
.................................................................................................120
IMPROVED FORTUNES OF MAXIMILIAN. DIET OF
COLOGNE AND CONSTANCE; 1505 AND 1507..................130
VENETIAN WAR. DIET OF WORMS.......................149
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DIET OF AUGSBURG, 1510; OF TREVES AND
COLOGNE, 1512. ...................................................................159
INTESTINE DISORDERS.........................................166
BOOK II. ..........................................................................186
EARLY HISTORY OF LUTHER AND OF CHARLES
V. 1517–1521 ..............................................................................186
CHAPTER I. ....................................................................187
ORIGIN OF THE RELIGIOUS OPPOSITION............187
POSITION OF THE PAPACY WITH REGARD TO
RELIGION...............................................................................192
OPPOSITION RAISED BY THE SECULAR POWERS.
.................................................................................................204
CHARACTER AND TENDENCIES OF THE
POPULAR LITERATURE. ......................................................211
CONDITION AND CHARACTER OF LEARNED
LITERATURE..........................................................................214
EARLY CAREER OF LUTHER.................................233
CHAPTER II....................................................................262
DESCENT OF THE IMPERIAL CROWN FROM
MAXIMILIAN TO CHARLES V...............................................262
DIET OF AUGSBURG, 1518....................................262
MUTUAL RELATIONS OF THE GERMAN PRINCES.
.................................................................................................270
ELECTION OF EMPEROR IN 1519. .......................291
CHAPTER III ..................................................................318
FIRST DEFECTION FROM THE PAPACY, 1519–20.
.....................................................................................................318
CAJETAN AND MILTITZ .........................................318
ARRIVAL OF MELANCHTHON. .............................324
DISPUTATION AT LEIPZIG....................................328
PROGRESS OF THE THEOLOGICAL OPPOSITION.
.................................................................................................337
HUTTEN. ..................................................................342
BULL OF LEO X.......................................................348
CRISIS OF SECESSION. ..........................................356
CHAPTER IV ..................................................................367
DIET OF WORMS. A.D. 1521.....................................367
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