Contents
Acknowledgements 9
Contributors 11
Introduction Konrad Eisenbichler 17
Publications by James M. Estes 35
James M. Estes, Teacher and Scholar
1. A Student’s Recollection Andrew Colin Gow 41
2. James M. Estes and the Collected Works of Erasmus James McConica 45 Friendship and Collaboration
3. Brenz and Melanchthon — Friends from Youth Heinz Scheible 51
4. Face-to-Face Meetings between Philip Melanchthon and Johannes Brenz: Differentiated Consensus in the Reformation Timothy J. Wengert 83
5. Erasmus of Rotterdam in Print: The Question of Reputation (1514–1521) Valentina Sebastiani 107
6. “For What Has Erasmus to Do with Money?” Desiderius Erasmus, a Paragonic Fund-Raiser Susan C. Karant-Nunn 125
7. Wolfgang Capito and Erasmus: The Rapprochement of 1535 Erika Rummel 145 Reforming the People and the Church
8. Erasmian Reform and Education in the Duchy of Jülich-Berg Nicole Kuropka 161
9. The History of Johannes Brenz’s Territorial Church: An Overview of the Organization of the Württemberg Church Hermann Ehmer 175
10. Reorganizing the Pastorate: Innovations and Challenges in the French Reformed Churches Raymond A. Mentzer 195
11. The Label of Erasmus, the Doctrine of Luther Silvana Seidel Menchi 217
12. Johann Herolt and Thomas Stapleton: Two Northern Influences on Preaching in the Diocese of Novara Thomas Deutscher 237
The Polemics of the Reformation
13. Too Little Too Late: the Erasmus-Luther Debate Scott H. Hendrix 255
14. “Things I Never Said or Thought”? Erasmus’ Exegetical Contribution to the Early Eucharistic Controversy” Amy Nelson Burnett 275
15. The “Three Kingdoms” of Simon Musaeus: A Wittenberg Student Processes Luther’s Thought Robert Kolb 297
Catholic Opponents of Erasmus and Luther
16. Erasmus’ Controversy with Agostino Steuco Charles E. Fantazzi 325 17. Slow and Cautious: The Origins of Printed Polemics by Paris Theologians against Luther and Lutheranism (1519–1523) Mark Crane 345
18. The Attitudes of the Jesuits toward Erasmus Paul F. Grendler 363
The Search for Religious Peace
19. Religion in the Religious Peace Agreements of the Early Modern Period: Comparative Case Studies Irene Dingel 389
Index 411