Von der Freiheit eines Christenmenschen ( On the Freedom of a Christian ), published in November 1520 in German and soon afterwards in Latin, was the ...

Lailashi, a remote village at the footstool of the Caucasian mountains holds one of the most tantalising and valuable discoveries in biblical scholarship ...

1523 was a crucial year for the German Reformation. This volume presents two-lesser known short pamphlets which illustrate the local as well as global ...

The works of the Japanese writer Yoko Tawada, who lives in Germany and writes in both German and Japanese, demand the suspension of common concepts of ...

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) was the author of the famous Divine Comedy . Less well known today, however, are Dante's lyric poems and treatises. His lyric ...

When we pick up a book, we might forget that as well as reading a text we are looking at a physical object. This is not the case for the medieval poet ...

In 1524, Hans Sachs (1494-1576), the Nuremberg shoemaker, prolific playwright, poet, and Meistersinger, published in quick succession four dialogues which ...

In 1524, Hans Sachs (1494-1576), the Nuremberg shoemaker, prolific playwright, poet, and Meistersinger, published in quick succession four dialogues which ...