Ebook: Ulrich von Hutten and the German Reformation

Revised and updated from the Yale University Press edition of 1937, this biography places Hutten skillfully in the setting of the early Reformation years without distorting or oversimplifying his relations with conflicting parties. Hutten appears as a knight who did not entirely submerge himself in his class, as a humanist who went his own way despite his admiration for Erasmus, as a 'Lutheran' who never completely identified himself with Luther, and as a religious traditionalist who broke sharply with Rome.