Following Zwingli
Subtitle: Applying the Past in Reformation Zurich
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780754667964
Subjects: Reformation, switzerland; Scholars; Switzerland, history; Europe, historiography
Description: During the sixteenth-century reform movement, Zwingli and his humanist colleagues in Zurich sought biblical, historical, literary, and political models to shape and defend their radical reforms. This book explores history, scholarship, and memory and examines the immediacy of antiquity, early Christianity, and the Middle Ages for the Zurich reformers after Zwingli's death. The interplay of past ideals with the pressing demands of a sixteenth-century reform movement tells us a great deal not only about Zwinglianism but also about locality, history and religious change in the European Reformatio.