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 52 Readings in European History Geiger, Renaissance und Humajtismus in Italien und Deutschland (Oncken Series), 1882. Contains a valuable account of Reuchlin, Eras- mus, and Hutten, and their forerunners. Schulte, Die Fagger in Rom, 1493-1523 (zur Geschichte des kirch- lichen Finanzwesens), Vol. I, 1904. Lamprecht, Deutsche Geschichte, Vol. V, Part I. Broad, suggest- ive, but not always lucid, treatment. Dacheux, Un Refor?nateur catholique,Jean Geiler, 1478-1510 (1876). An account of a famous and influential preacher. The sources. Hasak, Der christlichen Glaube des deutschen Volkes beim Schlusse des Mittelalters (1868). A remarkable and illuminating collection of extracts from the popular works of edification before Luther's tracts began to appear. * Ulrich von Hutten, Werke, edited by Boecking, 5 vols. A mine of information for the literary conditions. Hutten's dialogues ( Ge- sprdchbuchlein) have been reprinted (Dresden, 1905). Reuchlin, Briefwechsel, 1875 (edited by Geiger in the Bibliothek des Stuttgarter Literarischen Verems, Vol. CXXVI). Also Geiger, Johann Reuchlin, sein Leben und seine IVerke, 187 1. Mutianus, Briefwechsel, edited by Gillert, 1890 (also by Krause, 1885). The letters of one of the most important of the German humanists. Few will care to make a more careful study of the political condi- tions and history than can be based on Ranke, Deutsche Geschichte im Zeitalter der Reformation. The sources are enumerated in Waitz- Dahlmann, Quellenkunde der deutschen Geschichte, also in the Cam- bridge Modem History, Vol. I, pp. 734 Jy.