Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Keywords
Swiss American Historical Society, book review
Abstract
G. R. Potter, Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, University of Sheffield, has written what is probably the best one-volume biography of the great Swiss humanist and reformer Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531) in any language. This achievement was possible because Potter, at the height of a long and distinguished career, immersed himself in the mass of available materials and came up with a product that is scholarly and at the same time eminently readable. The scholarship is reflected in the numerous footnotes on every page as well as in the bibliography. Potter is at home in the libraries and archives of Zurich and other places where Zwingli sources are housed. He seems to have known most Zwingli scholars of his time and is familiar with their writings He not only uses the Latin language works of Zwingli and his contemporaries but handles with equal ease those written in the Swiss German of the early sixteenth century.
Recommended Citation
Meier, Heinz K.
(1977)
"Book Review: Zwingli,"
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter: Vol. 13:
Iss.
3, Article 7.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/sahs_newsletter/vol13/iss3/7