Johannes Reuchlin: Briefwechsel. Leseausgabe / Band 3: 1514–1517

The 90 letters in this volume illustrate primarily the legal and journalistic dispute surrounding Reuchlins evaluation in the Jewish book controversy as well as the Kabbalistic studies of the Pforzheim humanist, which culminated in the publication of his three books ‹De arte cabalistica‹ in March of 1517. There are very few letters from these years which do not touch on at least one of these subjects. The content of the correspondence does however have a much larger range. The letters deal with the procedure to determine the date of Easter at the Fifth Lateran Council as well as the genealogy of Marc, the history of an ancient gesture of blessing, Greek theories of harmony or the beginnings of occidental Ethiopian studies.