Table of Contents

Foreword: Roland H. Bainton
Introduction: Reinhard P. Becker
 
JOHANN VON TEPL
Death and the Ploughman
Translated by K.W. Maurer
 
SEBASTIAN BRANT
From The Ship of Fools; Prologue; Chapters 4, 13, 27, 32, 50, 73
Translated by Edwin H. Zeydel
 
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS
The Praise of Folly
Translation and notes by Robert A. Fowkes
 
CONRAD CELTIS
Three Poems
Translated by Reinhard P. Becker
 
MARTIN LUTHER
To The Christian Nobility of the German Nation
Translation and notes by C.M. Jacobs
and revised by James Atkinson
 
ULRICH VON HUTTEN
From Book of Dialogues: Fever the First
Translated by Robert A. Fowkes
 
CROTUS RUBIANUS/ULRICH VON HUTTEN
From Letters of Obscure Men: Letters I, 1: I, 37; II, 1
Translated by Francis C. Stokes
 
THOMAS MUNTZER
Sermon to the Princes (1524)
Well-warranted Speech in My Own Defense (1524)
Manifesto to the Miners (1525)
Translation and notes by Robert A. Fowkes
 
SEBASTIAN LOTZER
The Twelve Articles of Peasantry (1525)
Translated by Robert A. Fowkes