Besides the five substantial poems that Eobanus Hessus published at Erfurt in 1515–17, this volume offers his previously unknown “Inaugural Lecture” on Ci
Faced with losing his Erfurt lectorships, Eobanus Hessus coped by imagining himself a Proteus, transforming into a lawyer, a physician, and finally a teacher at
In this volume, Eobanus Hessus turns from passionate Erasmian into staunch defender of Luther, only to find himself caught in the no-man’s-land between the tw