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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 July 2009
There are some historical fields which generations of scholars have plowed with special care and thoroughness. The Reformation is one of them. A survey of such labor is quite difficult, particularly if it is to be given within a limited space. I have therefore decided to confine myself in the following investigation of Reformation scholarship to the products of the last twenty years. It will be my purpose to record the chief contributions to historical knowledge and to evaluate the main interests which they reflect.
1 This article was prepared for the survey of scholarship planned by The Committee on Renaissance Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies. It will be followed by an essay on the historiography of the Roman Catholic Church during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
2 See the interesting survey by the Roman Catholic scholar Jedin, H., Die Erforschung der kirchlichen, Reformationsgeschichte seit 1876. Leistungen und Aufgaben der deutschen Katholiken (Műnster, 1934).Google Scholar
3 While this article was being printed, Heft 1 of Vol. XXXVII (1940) of the Archiv für Reformations-Geschichte came to hand. Among the several interesting articles it contains, there are a few which deserve special mention. G. Ritter reviews (p. 61–75) the very important work of the Roman Catholic church historian, Lortz, Joseph, Die Reformation in Deutschland (2 vols., Freiburg, 1940)Google Scholar. These books, which due to war conditions I have not yet been able to obtain, promise to inaugurate an entirely new evaluation of the Reformation on the part of Roman Catholic historians. Walter Köhler begins a review (p. 93–102) of Anabaptist historiography which should be consulted in connection with my survey (Das Täufertum in der neueren kirchenhistorischen Forschung). Fritz Blanke's article, Das Reich der Wiedertäufer zu Münster, 1534/35 (p. 13–37), to be continued in a later issue of the Archiv, promises to be a definitive review of the historical sources of the Anabaptist catastrophe.
