Upper Rhine revolutionary

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Since the discovery of Herman Haupt, the author of an anonymous reform pamphlet from the Upper Rhine region (published in 1893 ) has been referred to as the Upper Rhine Revolutionary (also shortened to Upper Rhine ) , which the author himself initially referred to as the book of one hundred chapters with forty statutes . It was essentially created in the first decade of the 16th century and was completed around 1509/10. Similar to the Reformatio Sigismundi , the partly chiliastic script deals with the social and political questions of its time: the discrepancy between legal practice and theory, clerical fiscalism and the decline of imperial power are some of the author's themes. The Upper Rhine revolutionary v. a. from reform biblical assumptions. The author uses the historiographical construct of a primeval German empire as the basis of his (reform) demands made on Maximilian I. , which had achieved ideal statehood through the absolute application of divine law . It is important to orientate oneself on this.

In the research literature , the book , of which only a copy has survived in Colmar, is sometimes cited as evidence of the utopian potential of the Middle Ages (among others by Seibt ).

Klaus Lauterbach, who created the new edition of the pamphlet for the MGH , beats Mathias Wurm von Geudertheim, Secretary of Friedrich III. and Maximilians I, as the author, while Volkhard Huth Dr. Jakob Merswin from Strasbourg identified as the author.

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Editions

  • Klaus H. Lauterbach (ed.): Der Oberrheinische Revolutionär (The book of the hundred chapters with xxxx statutes). MGH , Scriptores 10, Staatsschriften des Later Medieval 7, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-7752-0307-4 ( dMGH ) ( review by Klaus Graf ).
  • Annelore Franke (Ed.): The book of the hundred chapters and the forty statutes of the so-called OR (= Leipzig translations and treatises on the Middle Ages. Vol. 4). VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1967.

Secondary literature

  • Jürgen Bücking: The "Upper Rhine Revolutionary" is called Conrad Strützel, his emblem royal court chancellor, in: Archive for Cultural History 56 (1974), pp. 177–197.
  • Norman Cohn: The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages. From the English by Francke: The struggle for the millennium. Revolutionary messianism in the Middle Ages and its survival in modern totalitarian movements. Bern 1961. pp. 107–117. Further change New editions with different German titles: ISBN 3-499-55472-0 (1988) ISBN 3-451-04638-5 (1998) ISBN 3-86756-032-3 (2007).
  • Alfred Doren: Desired rooms and desired times. In: Fritz Saxl (Ed.): Lectures from the Warburg Library 1924–1925. Leipzig, Berlin 1927, pp. 158-205.
  • Johannes Grabmayer: The "Upper Rhine Revolutionary", a legally qualified anonymous of the late 15th century. Diploma thesis Univ. Klagenfurt 1982 (not viewed).
  • Hermann Haupt: A revolutionary from the Upper Rhine from the age of Emperor Maximilian I. In: West German magazine for history and art. Supplement 8, 1893 ( ULB Düsseldorf ).
  • Volkhard Huth : The "Upper Rhine Revolutionary". Uncovered traces of life and fields of activity of a “theocratic terrorist” in the environment of Emperor Maximilian I. In: Zeitschrift für die Geschichte des Oberrheins 157 (2009), pp. 79–100.
  • Hermann Kopf : Was Chancellor Konrad Stürzel the "Upper Rhine Revolutionary"? In: Journal of the Breisgau History Association. Look into the country. Volume 97, 1978, pp. 29-38.
  • Erich Kraft: Reformschrift and Reichsreform. Diss. Darmstadt 1982.
  • Klaus H. Lauterbach: Understanding of history, time didax and reform thought at the turn of the sixteenth century. The Upper Rhine "Buchli der Hundred Chapters" in the context of late medieval reform biblicalism. (= Research on the history of the Upper Rhine region. Vol. 33), Freiburg and Munich 1985 ( review by Klaus Graf ).
  • the same: Upper Rhine revolutionary. In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages. 10 volumes, Metzler, Stuttgart 1977–1999.
  • the same: The "Upper Rhine Revolutionary" and Mathias Wurm von Geudertheim. New research on the author's question. In: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages 45 (1989), pp. 109–172 ( DigiZeitschriften ).
  • the same: The Upper Rhine Revolutionary and Jakob Merswin. Some comments on the latest author thesis. In: Zeitschrift für die Geschichte des Oberrheins 160. 2012, pp. 183–223.
  • Ferdinand Seibt : Utopias in the Middle Ages. In: Historische Zeitschrift 208. 1969, pp. 555-594.
  • Tilman Struve: Upper Rhine revolutionary. In: The German literature of the Middle Ages. Author's Lexicon , 2nd ed. 7, 1989, Sp. 8-11.

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