Melanchthon's Visitation Articles of 1528

Abstract

Historians and biographers have written at length about Philip Melanchthon, both as a humanist and reformer. Among recent studies are those by Michael Rogness, Philip Melanchthon: Reformer Without Honor (1969) and Clyde L. Manschreck, Melanchthon: The Quiet Reformer (1958). The most massive study is Wilhelm Maurer's Der junge Melanchthon zwischen Humanismus und Reformation, in two volumes. The first, published in 1967, is the thinner; it deals with Der Humanist. The second, exceeding 600 pages, published in 1969, portrays Der Theologe. Maurer did not go beyond the year 1529; he gave much attention to the Loci of 1521.