This is a handy little guide to English language protestant or evangelical works which were printed in (and around) Gerrnany during the reign of Henry VIII. - The first part consists of schedules of those works in English and Latin which the royal and Episcopal authorities in England attempted to ban. There is virtually
ne discussion of how effective these bans may have been, or how they were implemented, and they am taken mostly from the Letters and Papers of Henry VIII or from Foxe's Acts and Monuments. However, it is useful for reference purposes to have them set out in this way. - The second part is more useful, consisting as it does of an alphabetical list of authors
and their works. This list also shows the derivation of most of the bocks concerned, especially when they were translations or adaptations - for example the derivatives of Martin Luther run to over twenty pages. This makes the second part a valuable scholarly resource for anyone with an interest in the continental roots of, and influence over, the English Reformation. There is no interpretative commentary, but that is in the nature of the exercise. - Rainer Haas's secondary bibliography is (understandably) good on German material
but somewhat deficient on the English. He uses a nineteenth century edition of Foxe,
ignores a number of relevant modern works, and appears not to know that the Short Tide Catalogue was revised in the 1970s. He has, however, produced a useful guide which will be of value to all students of the theology - as distinct from the politics - of the Reformation in England. Loades
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