Katharina Schutz Zell (2 vols.): Volume One. The Life and Thought of a Sixteenth-Century Reformer - Volume Two. The Writings, A Critical Edition

This volume provides access to the literary corpus of an early Protestant Reformation leader, Katherine Schutz Zell. An educated craftswoman and pastor’s wife, Katherine wrote German fluently. Her works span the years from 1524 to 1558 and range in genre from devotional, educational and pastoral texts, to sermonic literature and theological polemic. Schutz Zell’s writings reveal a lively mind, considerable Biblical knowledge and a gift for history. Her autograph letter to Caspar Schwenckfeld is important for the light it sheds on confessionalization in the 1550s and one woman’s friendly but sturdy intellectual independence.