DOCUMENT 5. Letters of Obscure Men

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. PREFACE Cultural Bias and Historiography vii
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii
5. CHRONOLOGY The Reuchlin Affair xv
6. PART A – THE REUCHLIN AFFAIR IN CONTEXT
7. CHAPTER 1. Pfefferkorn and the Battle against Judaism 3
8. CHAPTER 2. Reuchlin and the Scholastic Theologians 14
9. CHAPTER 3. Reuchlin and the Luther Affair 26
10. CHAPTER 4. Sixteenth-Century Interpretations of the Reuchlin Affair: Beliefs or Constructs? 29
11. CHAPTER 5. The Reuchlin Affair in Modern Historiography 36
12. Notes 41
13. PART B – TEXTS
14. DOCUMENT 1. The Enemy of the Jews 53
15. DOCUMENT 2. The Confession of the Jews 69
16. DOCUMENT 3. Report about the Books of the Jews 86
17. DOCUMENT 4. Defence against the Cologne Slanderers 98
18. DOCUMENT 5. Letters of Obscure Men 109
19. DOCUMENT 6. Reports on the Confiscation of Jewish Books in Frankfurt, 1509 128
20. DOCUMENT 7. Two Reports by the Faculty of Theology at Cologne 132
21. DOCUMENT 8. Willibald Pirckheimer's Defence of Reuchlin, 1517 136
22. DOCUMENT 9. Two Letters from Erasmus Concerning the Reuchlin Affair 141
23. DOCUMENT 10. The Dedicatory Letter of Reuchlin's De arte cabalistica, 1517 146
24. DOCUMENT 11. Jacob Hoogstraten, Information to the Reader, 1519 152
25. DOCUMENT 12. Hutten's Letters to Erasmus and Reuchlin, 1520/1 158
26. DOCUMENT 13. Two Comments by Luther on the Historical Context of the Reuchlin Affair 162
27. BIBLIOGRAPHY 165
28. INDEX 171