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Xerox University Microfilms 300 North Zeeb Road Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106 75-3094 HIGGINS, John Patrick, 1942- THE CAREER OF CHRISTOPH VON UTENHEIM, BISHOP OF BASEL, 1502-1527. The Ohio State University, Ph.D., 1974 History, modern Xerox University Microfilmst Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106 © 1974 JOHN PATRICK HIGGINS ALL RIGHTS RESERVED THIS DISSERTATION HAS BEEN MICROFILMED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED. THE CAREER CfF CHRISTOPH VON UTEHHE3M, BISHOP OF BASEL, 1$02-1$21 DISSERTATION Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of The Ohio State U niversity I* John Patrick Higgins, A.B., MJL *#«*** The Ohio S tate University 197h Approved by Department. 01 nxs'oory PREFACE The I n itia l research fo r th is study was done w ith the as­ sistance of a Pulbright-Hays fellowship to the University of Erlangen-Nilrriberg in 1967 - 19 6 8 . I am indebted to Professor Dr. Inagard H 8 s s and Professor Dr. Ernst-Wilhelm Kohls (formerly of the University of Erlangen-Nflrnberg and now at Marburg) for their assistance. In Germany, I am indebted to the staff of the Universitatsbibliothek in Erlangen and the Stadtarchiv in Nuxnberg far their assistance and to the staff of the General- Iandesarchiv in Karlsruhe for their help during a brief visit in the summer of 1971. In Switzerland, I am grateful to Monsieur * * * A, Rais of the Archives de l'Ancien Eveche de Bale in Parrentruy for his courtesy during my visit in November, 1967, and to Herr Wacbemagel, director of the Staatsarchiv Basel-Stadt for his help in obtaining the loan of the manuscript of the Missivenbuch for use in Basel during the spring of 1968 as well as his kind­ ness in having a portion of it microfilmed. I was also happy to have access to the riches of the Universitatsbibliothek in Basel. I am g ratefu l to Professor James K ittelson of the Ohio State University who first suggested the topic while we were stumer fellows at the Foundation for Reformation Research in St. Louis in 19 6 6 . Thanks are also due to the libraries and staff of the Ohio State University, the Widener Library at Harvard, and the i i . University of Rhode Island Library. I owe a special debt to the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the Ohio State University for a grant to reproduce the Missiveribuch by xerography from the o rig in a l microfilm. Acknowledgement is also due to the Historisches Museum in Basel for permission to reproduce the photographs in Chapter II and to Latouzey et Ane of Paris to reproduce the map in Chapter H . Burton Brown, Sally Burke, Walter Cane, Charles Daniel, and Wilfred and Evelyn Dvorak of the University of Rhode Island each knot/ my debt to them, as do Rev. John Doherty, CSSR, and Michael Hayden of Munich, Germany. My parents and s is te r Anne have been a source of constant encouragement throughout this study. To ny Doktorvater, Regents Professor Harold J. Grimm of the Ohio State University, I owe the greatest thanks for his criticism, guidance, and patience in all stages of this study* i i i VITA October 2J>, 19lj2 .................................Born - New York, New York 196U ....... .............................A.B. cum Laude, Fordhaia College, Bronx, New York 196U-1965 ..... Research Fellow, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 1 9 6 5 .........................................................M.A., The Ohio S tate U niversity, Coluoibus, Ohio 196^-1967 ..................................... Teaching A ssociate, The Ohio S tate U niversity, Columbus, Ohio 1967-1968 .................................................Fulbright Fellow, The University of Erlangen— Nurnberg, Germany 1968-1970 ................................................. Teaching Associate, The Ohio State U niversity, Columbus, Ohio 1970-197U .............................................Instructor, The University of Rhode Island, Providence, Rhode Island FIEIDS OF STUDY Major Field: The Renaissance and Reformation Studies in Roman History. Professor William McDonald Studies in Medieval History. Professor Franklin Pegues Studies in American Colonial History. Professor Paul Bowers Studies in American Social and Economic History. Professor Francis Weisenburger i v . LIST OF FIGURES Page Figure 1 - Portrait of Christoph von Utenheim .....S>3 Figure 2 - Portrait of Christoph von Utenheim ........... $h Figure 3 - Map of the Diocese of Basel ....................... 60 v . TABIE OF CONTENTS Page PREFACE.....................................................................................................i i VITA.............................................................................................................±7 r LIST OF FIGURES................................................................................ v INTRODUCTION.................................................................................... 1 Chapter I . BASEL AS C m AND BISHOPRIC............................................ 7 n . A PORTRAIT OF CHRISTOPH VON UTENHEIM.............................1|8 H I . CHRISTOPH VON UTENHEIM'S REFORM SYNOD OF 1$03 . 100 IV. THE R3IATI0NSHIP BETWEEN CHRISTOPH VON UTENHEIM AND ERASMUS........................... 1^0 V . DIOCESAN ADMINISTRATION IN BASEL EARIY IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY CONCLUSION.......................................172 bibliographt ................................................................................... .2 0 0 ▼i BfrftCDUCflON Lewis Spitz has recen tly noted th a t the polymorphous Renais­ sance and the Reformation Era took place in an "age of movement, a time of accelerated transition."'*' To some extent, every historical period can be called an age of transition, but the transformation of societal structures in their ecclesial and social expressions which took place most dramatically during the Reformation of the sixteenth century had an impact that is relevant to the situation of twentiety-century man. It is no accident that the poet and social critic Paul Goodman in surveying the contemporary American scene at the end of the turbulent 1960s found the experience of the Reformation Era to provide a valid analogy for the contemporary 2 scene. In the preface to New Reformation, Goodman notes: By 'Reformation* I mean simply an upheaval of belief that is of religious depth, but that does not involve destroying the common faith, but to purge and reform it. (Of course, such a religious reform may be po­ litically revolutionary.) . although I see lots of troops, I don't see any Wiclif, ^Lewis S pitz, The Renaissance and Reformation Movements (Chicago, 1971), pp. vii-viii. ^Paul Goodman, New Reformation: Notes of a Neolithic Con­ servative (New York, I 970TI Hereafter cited as Goodman. 1 . 2 . Has, or Luther to lead them. But being my­ self an Erasmiam skeptic, I probably wouldn11 recognize them anyway.3 If publicists like Goodman see the "relevance" (to use an overworked ward) of the Reformation crisis for the situation in which contem­ porary man finds himself, scholars for their part have been putting new conceptual wine into the old skins of Reformation studies. Berad Moeller, a German scholar, has recently stated: We need the spiritual and intellectual energies that the Reformation has to offer. Moreover, the Christian life, the church, and contemporary theology have so many ties to the Reformation that for our own self-knowledge we should always be aware of this relationship, and should con­ tinually examine it and test its relevancy for today. We will be lost, however, if we think this can be done without effort at historical understanding. h In another essay, Moeller explores the complex relationship between humanism and