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'The Fifteen Confederates' was published anonymously in the fall of
1521, shortly after Martin Luther's hearing at the Diet of Worms
and subsequent disappearance. The fifteen pamphlets that make up
the book address religious, social, economic, and political
challenges facing the German people. Their author, Johann Eberlin
von Gunzburg, subsequently became one of the most prolific and
popular pamphleteers of the German Reformation. As an important
contribution to the pamphlet war that accompanied the beginnings of
the Reformation in Germany, 'The Fifteen Confederates' provides us
a valuable window on the aspirations and dreams that accompanied
Luther's initial calls for reform of the church and society.
Many of the leading figures of the Reformation and many of their
most able opponents came from among the ranks of the Franciscan
Order. This Order became the focus of attack in a pamphlet war
waged against it in 1523 by converts to the Reformation. These
criticisms were based on arguments by Luther in his Judgement on
Monastic Vows, and the pamphlets provided an important channel for
these views. Luther's arguments were also reinforced by criticisms
of the mendicant orders drawn from medieval polemical and satirical
literature. The campaign of 1523 brought together both Reformation
and pre-Reformation anticlerical themes. In this book Geoffrey
Dipple looks at the perception of the Franciscan order in the 15th
and 16th centuries, placing the attacks firmly in the context of
late medieval inter-clerical rivalries. He looks particularly at
the anticlerical polemics of one of the primary participants -
Johann Eberlin von GA1/4nzburg - the most vocal of the Franciscan's
critics.
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