exhibition
cabinet fourteen: the spread of reform
Sir Roger Twysden, An Historical Vindication of the Church of England in Point of Schism. London: Printed for Robert Pawlet, 1675. De
Beer Eb 1675 T
‘Huldrych Zwingli’ from [Herōologia Anglica]. [Arnhem: Printed by Jan Jansson …for Henry Holland, London, 1620?]. De Beer Eb 1620 P
Johann George Altmann, Etat et Delices de la Suisse. Basle: Emanuel Tourneisen, 1776. De Beer Swb 1776
Jean Calvin, Commentaries on the Book of the Prophet Daniel. Edinburgh: Calvin Translation Society, 1852. Central BX9420 C463 1852
‘John Calvin’ from [Herōologia Anglica]. [Arnhem: Printed by Jan Jansson …for Henry Holland, London, 1620?]. De Beer Eb 1620 P
cabinet fifteen: the council of trent
Sacrosancti et Oecumenici Concilii Tridentini Paulo III, Iulio III et Pio IV. [Amsterdam: William Jansz Blaeu], 1656. De Beer Gb 1656 T
Index Expvrgatorivs Librorvm. [Lyon: Jean Mareschal], 1586. Shoults Fa 1586 I
Paolo Sarpi, [The Historie of the Council of Trent]. Translated into English by Nathanael Brent. London: Robert Baker and John Bill,
1620. Shoults Ec 1620 S
Blaise Pascal, Les Provinciales, or, The Mystery of Jesuitisme. London: Printed for R. Royston, 1658. De Beer Eb 1658 P
cabinet sixteen: anabaptists, huguenots, and john knox
Johannes Fabricius, Motvs Monasteriensis libri decem. Cologne: [Martin Gymnich], 1546. Shoults Gb 1546 F
Bartholomew Day Massacre, 1572, painting by François Dubois, c.1572
Print depicting the attempted assassination of Admiral Coligny, Bartholomew Day Massacre, c.1572
John Knox, The History of the Reformation of Religion within the Realm of Scotland. Edinburgh: Printed by H. Inglis, Westport, 1790.
De Beer Sc 1790 K
cabinet seventeen: conflict continued
[Robert Chestlin], Persecutio Undecima. The Churches Eleventh Persecution, or, A Briefe of the Puritan Persecution of the Protestant
Clergy of the Church of England. [London], 1648. De Beer Eb 1648 C
David Lloyd, Memoires of the Lives, Actions, Sufferings & Deaths of those Noble, Reverend, and Excellent Personages, that suffered by
Death, Sequestration, Decimation, or Otherwise, for the Protestant Religion. London: Printed for Samuel Speed by John Wright [et
al], 1668. De Beer Ec 1668 L
Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down, A Dissuasive from Popery. London: Printed by J.G. for R. Royston, 1664. De Beer Eb 1664 T
cabinet eighteen: polemics - old and new
Der Spiegel, August 2015. Private Collection
Macht Freiheit Reformation, Berlin, August 2012. Private Collection
Hans Weiditz, ‘Käsebauer und Käsefrau’ [Cheesemaker and his wife], [Augsburg], 1521. Facsimile. Private Collection
____, ‘Zum Tanz eilendes Bauernpaar’, [Augsburg], 1521. Facsimile. Private Collection
Erhard Schön, ‘Der Teufel mit der Sackpfeife’ [The Devil playing the Bagpipe], [Nuremberg], 1535. Facsimile. Private Collection
Heinrich Vogtherr the Younger, ‘Der Schalksnarr’ [The Fool], 1540. Facsimile. Private Collection
walls
Unbekannter deutscher Meister, Krieg der Mäuse gegn die Katzen [Battle of Mice and Cats], 1500. Facsimile. Private Collection
Leonhard Beck, Der Bärentanz [Bear Dance, Augsburg], 1523. Facsimile. Private Collection
Hans Weiditz, Landsknecht und Troßbube [Lansquenet and Baggage train boy, Augsburg], 1521. Facsimile. Private Collection
Unbekannter deutscher Meister, Hasen richten über Jäger und Mönche [Hares are judging hunters and monks], 1535. Facsimile. Private
Collection
Monogrammist GP, Kampf der Gänse gegen die Füchse [Battle of the geese against the fox], 1544. Facsimile. Private Collection
vitrine one: Religions of the World
vitrine two: Martin Luther’s Works
vitrine three: Scholarship on Luther and the Reformation
vitrine four: Catholic and Protestant Christianity
selective references:
Scott H. Hendrix, Martin Luther. Visionary Reformer. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015
Peter Matheson, Reformation Christianity. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2007
Michael Mullett, Historical Dictionary of the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation. Lanham, [Maryland]: The Scarecrow Press,
2010.
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Reformation. Edited by Peter Marshall. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015
Andrew Pettegree, Brand Luther. New York: Penguin, 2015
Merry Wiesner-Hanks, The Renaissance and Reformation. A History in Documents. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012
Wikipedia: Martin Luther; Reformation.
Thanks to the Department of Theology and Religion, especially Professor Murray Rae, the Rev. Dr Peter Matheson, and Dr Brett Knowles.
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5
Years On
Martin Luther and the
Protestant Reformation
EXHIBITION LIST
24 March – 9 June 2017
500
Years On
Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation
Martin Luther (1483-1546) was a friar and Professor of Theology at the University of Wittenberg, Germany. While
undertaking scriptural studies, Luther arrived at an essential tenet: the Bible alone was the source to salvation and
true Christianity. Luther rejected the authority of the Pope, and thought that people should go to the church and
pray, directly to God or Jesus, and not to anyone who claimed special powers or holiness. On 31st October 1517, All
Saints’ Day eve, an occasion that attracted many pilgrims to the city, Luther nailed 95 theses to the church door.
These disputations, in Latin, were a provocative attack on indulgences, which he saw as a money-making scheme
by the Church. Initially posted to generate scholarly debate, the theses marked a beginning on the Reformation
timeline. Importantly, it was not only the theses that sparked the revolution; the time was ripe for action.
Luther was a preacher with a prolific publication output. He utilised the relatively new technology of printing
to disseminate his works, many slender tracts (flugschrift) and sermons written in German, to a wider audience.
Supporters helped, including Philip Melanchthon and Frederick the Wise, Elector of Saxony. And of course there
were his opponents such as Johannes Cochlaeus, who wrote the first biography on him, and Emperor Charles V.
The Papal authorities saw Luther as a ‘notorious heretic’, and he was excommunicated at the Diet of Worms in 1521.
This exhibition, 500 Years On. Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation, is a celebratory one that not only
acknowledges Luther’s provocative action back in October 1517, but also the result, the spread of Reform that
followed across Europe. The major players in this drama included Huldrych Zwingli, John Calvin, John Knox, and
Henry VIII, who was instrumental in starting the English Reformation. There was also the inevitable back-lash,
those involved in the ‘Catholic’ Counter Reformation. On-going Catholic and Protestant differences resulted in the
wholesale persecution of various sects, the English Civil War, and internal religious and social strife throughout
many European countries. Luther’s legacy continues to impact the world today. Please enjoy this exhibition.
items on display
cabinet one: the medieval world
[Hartmann Schedel], [Nuremberg Chronicle]. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1493. De Beer Ge 1493 S
Hans Holbein, Bilder des Todes. Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, [1917]. Brasch Collection NE1150.5 HP94 A4 1917
Book of Hours, Northern France, c. late 15th century. De Beer MS.02
[German Bible]. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1483. De Beer Ge 1483 B
cabinet two: the city of rome & indulgences
Francesco Albertini, Opusculum de Mirabilibus Novae et Veteris Urbis Romae. [Basel]: Thomas Wolfe, 1519. De Beer Swb 1519 A
Biblia Latina, [Commentaries by Nicolai de Lyra]. Venice: Johannes Herbort de Seligenstadt, et al., 31 July 1481. Shoults Itc 1481 B v.3
Indulgentie Ecclesiar[um] Urbis Rome. Rome: M. Silber, December 1515. De Beer Itb 1515 M
cabinet three: printing
[Jacobus Magdalius of Gouda, ed.], Correctori[um] Biblie. Cologne: Heinrich Quentel, 1508. De Beer Gb 1508 M
Philip Melanchthon, Prima[-secvnda] pars Chronici Carionis Latine Expositi et Avcti Multis... [Wittenberg: George Rhaw], 1562. De
Beer Gb 1562 C
Copy of an etching of Wittenberg, c.1500
Johann Fabri of Heilbronn, Was die Evangelisch Messe [sic] sei Grundliche unnd Christenliche Anzeigung. [Dillingen: Sebald Mayer],
1557. De Beer Gb 1557 F
cabinet four: early reformers
‘Jan Hus’ from [Herōologia Anglica]. [Arnhem: Printed by Jan Jansson at the expenses of Crispijn van de Passe and Jan Jansson for
Henry Holland, London, 1620?]. De Beer Collection Eb 1620 P
Ubertino de Casale, Arbor uite crucifixe Iesu. [Venice]: Andream de Bonettis de Papia, 1485. Shoults Itc 1485 U
John Wycliffe, Three Treatises. Dublin: Hodges and Smith, 1851. Storage Bliss PL W
‘John Wyclif ’ from [Herōologia Anglica]. [Arnhem: Printed by Jan Jansson…for Henry Holland, London, 1620?]. De Beer Eb 1620 P
cabinet five: the role of women
Rudolf K. and Marilyn Morris Markwald, Katharina von Bora. A Reformation Life. Saint Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 2002.
Private Collection
Niclas Stör, ‘Der Buhler Vogelherd’, Germany, c.1535. Facsimile. Private Collection
Peter Matheson, Argula von Grumbach: A Woman before her Time. Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, 2013. Private Collection
cabinet six: martin luther
Luther’s Works. Career of the Reformer I. Edited by Harold J. Grimm. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1957. Central BR330 E5 1955, v. 31
‘Martin Luther’ from [Herōologia Anglica]. [Arnhem: Printed by Jan Jansson …for Henry Holland, London, 1620?]. De Beer Eb 1620 P
Martin Luther, Ein Schon Sermonn tzu Erffurdt geprediget. Erfurt: Michael Buchfuehrer, 1522 (1922 Jubilee facsimile). Private Collection
____, Adversus Latrocinantes et Raptorias Cohortes Rusticorum. Cologne: [S. Kruffter?, August], 1525. Shoults Gb 1525 L
cabinet seven: martin luther
Enchiridion Geistliker leder unde Psalmen. Magdeburg: Michael Lotter, 1536 (facsimile edition by Stephen A. Crist). Atlanta: Scholars
Press, 1994. Special Collections M2138 E5 1994
Die Propheten Alle Deutsch [The Bible]. Wittenberg: Hans Lufft, 1534 (facsimile, 1935). Private Collection
[Bernard of Luxemburg], Catalogus Hereticoru[m]. Cologne: Peter Quentel, 1526. Shoults Gb 1526 B
cabinet eight: friends & contemporaries
Martin Luther, Tomus Primus Omnium Operum. [Wittenberg]: Johannem Lufft, 1550. 8Gc 1550 L. Hewitson Library, Knox College
‘Philip Melanchthon’, from [Herōologia Anglica]. [Arnhem: Printed by Jan Jansson …for Henry Holland, London, 1620?]. De Beer
Collection Eb 1620 P
Martin Luther, [Deuteronomy]. [Wittenberg; Lufft], 1525. Bb L. Hewitson Library, Knox College
Albertus Pighius, Hierarchiae Ecclesiasticae Assertio. [Cologne]: Melchior Nouesianus, 1538. Shoults Gc 1538 P
cabinet nine: friends & contemporaries
The Life of Luther. Written by Himself. Collected and arranged by M. Michelet; translated by William Hazlitt. London: David Bogue,
1846. Shoults Eb 1846 L
Peter Moser, Lucas Cranach: His Life, His World and His Art. Bamberg: Babenber Verlag, 2005. Central ND588 C8 MW51
[Bible class with Luther and friends], from Anna I. Katterfeld, Die Reformatoren: ein Gedenkbuch für die evangelische Christenheit.
Cologne: H. Wulfers, 1933. Special Collections BR315 I4 1933
cabinet ten: johannes cochlaeus and charles v
Image of Johannes Cochlaeus, c.1525
Johannes Cochlaeus, Articuli CCCCC. Martini Lutheri: ex sermonibus eius sex & triginta, quibus singulatim responsum est. Cologne:
Peter Quentel, 1526. Shoults Gb 1526 L
____, Historia ioannis cochlaei de actis et scriptis Martini Lvtheri Saxonis chronographice. [Paris: Nicolas Chesneau], 1565. Shoults Fb
1565 C
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, from Prudentio de Sandoval’s The Civil Wars of Spain, in the Reign of Charles the Fifth, Emperour of
Germanie, and King of that Nation. London: Printed for Simon Miller, 1655. De Beer Eb 1655 S
cabinet eleven: erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus, De Duplici Copia Verborum ac Rerum Commentarii Duo. [London: Henry Middelton], 1573. Shoults Eb 1573 E
____, Epistolarvm D. Erasmi Roterodami. Libri XXXI, et P. Melanchthonis Libri Iv. Quibus adjiciuntur Th. Mori & Lvd. Vivis epistolae.
[London: M. Flesher & R. Young], 1642. De Beer Ec 1642 E
____, Colloquiorum Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami Familiarum Opus Aureum. [London: Bonwicke, Ware, Ward, et al., 1740]. Shoults Eb
1740 E
cabinet twelve: beginnings of the english reformation
The Newe Testament…Corrected by Willyam Tindale, 1536. Columbus, Ohio: Lazarus Ministry Press facsimile, 1999. Special
Collections BS140 1999
‘William Tindall’ from [Herōologia Anglica]. [Arnhem: Printed by Jan Jansson …for Henry Holland, London, 1620?]. De Beer Eb 1620 P
Oliver Goldsmith, An Abridgment of the History of England. Gainsborough: Henry Mozley, 1812. Special Collections
[Robert Manning], England’s Conversion and Reformation Compared; or, The Young Gentleman directed in the Choice of his Religion.
Antwerp: Printed for RC and CF, 1725. Shoults Lb 1725 M
cabinet thirteen: the english reformation
‘Thomas Cramner’ from [Herōologia Anglica]. [Arnhem: Printed by Jan Jansson …for Henry Holland, London, 1620?]. De Beer Eb
1620 P
Reformatio Legum Ecclesiasticarum, ex Authoritate Primum regis Henrici 8 inchoata. [London: T. Harper & R. Hodgkinson, et al],
1640. Shoults Eb 1640 C
John Fisher, Assertionis Lutheranae Confvtatio ivxta Vervm ac Etiam Originalem Archetypum... Paris: [Charlotte] Guillard, 1545.
Shoults Fb 1545 F
[Henry Wharton], A Specimen of Some Errors and Defects in The History of the Reformation of the Church of England. London: Printed
for Randall Taylor, 1693. Shoults Eb 1693 W