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Orbis Helveticorum: Das Schweizer Buch und seine mitteleuropäische Welt, hg. von Viliam Čičaj und Jan-Andrea Bernhard, 2011
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Le réformateur Jean Le Comte (1500–1572): De l’oubli à une mémoire remodelée
No full textIn a publication of 1707, Abraham Ruchat (1680–1750) exhumes for the first time the reformer Jean Le Comte (1500–1572), hitherto completely unknown to Protestant historiography. According to Ruchat, Le Comte was, along with Guillaume Farel and Pierre Viret, one of the most important reformers of the Romandie. To back his assertion, he refers to a diary supposed to have been written by Le Comte himself and derives from it new details about the Reformation, pertaining especially to the dominion of Grandson. Since then, historians have used the extracts excerpted by Ruchat over and over again, while a few others claim to have used the diary itself, the last of which was Eduard Bähler at the end of the 19th century. It was assumed since then that this diary of Jean Le Comte had been lost. This article establishes that the diary was not written by Jean Le Comte, but by his son Jacques (1543–1613) on the basis of paternal archives, afterwards destroyed by the son in order to blur any evidence of the strong disagreements which existed between his father on the one hand and the reformers Farel, Calvin and Viret on the other. This original diary composed by Jacques, which still existed in 1767, has probably been destroyed since. However, extracts of it dating from 1629 have been rediscovered, similar and yet a little bit more exhaustive than the ones known so far. They were discovered for the first time at the end of 1916 in the castle of Champvent, were shown at that time to the well-known historian of the Canton Vaud, Henri Vuilleumier (1841–1925), before falling into oblivion once again
Freundschaft und Kirchenpolitik: Zwei Buchgeschenke Bullingers an Friedrich von Salis-Samedan
No full textThe friendship between Heinrich Bullinger and Friedrich von Salis began incthe autumn of 1556. Unfortunately, several letters from this early period are missing. The recently discovered pair of book gifts from Bullinger to Salis can help to close this important gap. In addition, they also illustrate how Bullinger used his correspondence and book gifts for church political purposes
Reformed Preaching in the Sixteenth Century: The Use of Lectionaries in Zurich
No full textWe know how important preaching was for the Reformers, who centred the service around the sermon. Although the content of sermons has been studied, their form has hardly ever been considered. There were three main models which existed for sixteenth-century preachers: starting from the first verse of the first chapter of a biblical book and commenting on it until its end in lectio continua, using commonplaces (loci communes), or using a lectionary as the Roman Catholic Church did during the Middle Ages. The article focuses on the practice of Zwingli’s successor as the Zurich antistes, Heinrich Bullinger, with an examination of his handwritten drafts. We thus discover that Bullinger preached not only according to the lectio continua, or favoring commonplaces when he wrote the Decades, but he still continued to preach according to the remains of a lectionary which was still current in Zurich, together with some yearly sermons, as well as in particular civil and political circumstances: the feast day of the City of Zurich, battle sermons, or sermons on marriage
Pierre Viret et la diffusion de la Réforme, hg. von Karine Crousaz und Daniela Solfaroli Camillocci, 2014
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Durich Chiampells "Topographie" als Apologie und Inszenierung Rätiens
No full textDurich Chiampell’s (c. 1510 – c. 1582) "Raetiae alpestris topographica descriptio" deals with the geography of the Republic of the Three Leagues – today the region of Graubünden – in a manner influenced to such a high degree by rhetorical principles that it is rather a mise-en-scène constructed to transmit a certain view of his subject rather than objective knowledge. The article shows this in the chosen examples relating to geography and history. The criticism he faced by his orderers in Zurich were refuted by Chiampell with arguments drawn from contemporary historiography
