Reformatio Sigismundi

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In connection with the efforts to reform the Holy Roman Empire in the reign of Emperor Sigismund (1411–1437), two years after his death, by an anonymous author, in 1439 at the Council of Basel, the writing Reformatio Sigismundi , which is therefore wrongly appealed to the German ruler.

The Reformatio was written in German and was probably the most widespread reform writing of its time. The text was first printed in 1476 and was reprinted seven times by 1522. In the 15th century it was even treated like an imperial law. The Reformatio marks the beginning of a development that no longer formulates constitutional and political principles only in Latin , but also in German.

In terms of content, the Reformatio hardly differs from the other political reform texts from Sigismund's time. She submits proposals for church and imperial reform and does this partly from practical, partly from unrealistic points of view. The scriptures contain a doctrine of the sacraments and advocate marriage of priests and the secularization of church property. It also contains an alleged vision of Emperor Sigismund about the appearance of a priest-king Frederick and plans for a secular reform of the monarchy (or emperor) and the (German) empire.

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literature

  • Hartmut Boockmann : On the effects of the "Reform Kaiser Siegmunds" In: German archive for research into the Middle Ages. 1979, pp. 514-541.
  • Lothar Graf zu Dohna: Reformatio Sigismundi , Göttingen 1960
  • Malte Prietzel : The Holy Roman Empire in the Late Middle Ages (= compact history. Middle Ages) , Darmstadt 2004, p. 116f.
  • Heinrich Koller : Reformatio Sigismundi , in: Lexikon des Mittelalters , Vol. 7, Col. 550 f.
  • Manfred Straube : “From the artzent stat”: A chapter from the so-called Refomatio Sigismundi and the city medical system in the first half of the 15th century in the southwest of the empire, primarily in Basel. In: NTM Volume 2, 1965, 5, pp. 87-103.