Now its’s one stroke after the other! The seventh volume of the Complete Critical Edition of Karlstadt's Letters and Writings will be published in the beginning of 2024. It will edit Karlstadt’s publications of 1524, which received the greatest attention and had the most widespread impact. His writings on the Lord’s … [Read more...]

In September 2023, the sixth volume of the Complete Critical Edition of Karlstadt's Letters and Writings has been published. This volume documents the texts of 1523, when Karlstadt ceased his academic teaching and publishing. With the establishment of a parish in Orlamünde, he shifted his focus entirely to lay-based, … [Read more...]

Volume 5 of the Karlstadt Edition covers his publications and letters of 1522. At the beginning of the year, Karlstadt dominated the debate in Wittenberg with writings on city and mass reforms, the welfare of the poor, the removal of images from churches, the clerical marriage and the dissolution of monastic vows. … [Read more...]

Volume 4 of the Karlstadt Edition has recently appeared. Covering the works of 1521, this volume shows Karlstadt standing at the centre of a broad publication current of the early Reformation. Themes include practical reforms ranging from clerical marriage to the renewal of the mass. At the same time, the first deeper … [Read more...]

Ulrich Bubenheimer: “Ad fontes - back to the original sources! Getting behind the Editions to the Manuscripts.” Celebratory Lecture in the Paulinerkirche, Göttingen on 21 November 2022. Johann Schwertfeger (c.1488–10.5.1524), who attended Karlstadt’s lectures on Augustine as a mature law student, noted on his copy of … [Read more...]