These are 12 studies in English, representing the relationship of humanism and religious reform in the 16th-century transformation of European culture. In the context of the cultural and intellectual thinking of the Renaissance and the Reformation, it offers essays on Luther and German humanism.
Introduction: the Renaissance - humanism and humanism research. Part I German humanism: the course of German humanism; the "Theologica Platonica" in the religious thought of the German humanists; the third generation of German Renaissance humanists; humanism in Germany. Part II Luther, Reformation, and humanism: Luther as a scholar and thinker; headwaters of the Reformation - "Studia Humanitatis, Luther Senior et Initia Reformationis"; Luther and German humanism; humanism and the Protestant Reformation; Luther's importance for anthropological realism; man in this isthmus.