Monumenta testium veritatis. Catalog of the Printings of Protestant "Witnesses of the Truth" in the 16th and 17th Centuries and Edition of the "Opus arduum valde"

宗教改革的教会不仅以教义或伦理的方式，甚至以历史的方式，建立了他们所谓的基督的真正教会的身份。当历史上的教皇教会背弃了其神圣的召唤时，改革者们把自己看作是中世纪的一个又一个前辈，即使在衰退时期，他们也被上帝安排为真理的见证人。一开始的论点是——早在1519年就形成了——简·胡斯是路德的先驱；路德，梅兰希顿和他们的追随者逐渐发展出一种明确的改革和新教的教会历史观，改革被认为是一系列福音派见证真理的目标和终点。这一观念对历史观念和新教身份话语的影响甚至超越了前现代。在其古典形态中，真理见证人的范式以马蒂亚斯·弗拉西乌斯·伊利里库斯于1556年和1562年出版的《真理目录》（Catalogus testium veritatis）为代表。在路德维希·拉伯斯、让·克雷斯平和约翰·福克斯所写的新教殉道学中，甚至可以找到一种修改过的方式。与这些作品相反，另一种重要的媒介帮助建立了新教历史身份的叙述，但尚未被系统地探索：中世纪文本的印刷，这些文本由改革者或有改革思想的印刷商获得，因为他们声称这些或其作者是真理的见证人。路德自己安排了许多这样的印刷，并添加了自己的序言，特别是在1522年至1528年期间。此外，在16世纪和17世纪，在不同的欧洲国家也有几次类似的印刷。该项目旨在创建一个完整的印刷库，这些印刷库被用作整个欧洲福音派的真理见证，直到这种话语失去其意义，根据最近的研究，这可以追溯到17世纪。因此，我们将创造一种工具来重建这种特殊新教文学作品的个人，地方和时间动态，并衡量其对当时忏悔冲突的重要性。对数据的第一次评估应在专家会议上进行。该剧目还将补充一个重要的印刷“真相的见证人”实例的评论版。为了这个目的，“Opus arduum valde”被选为《启示录》的注释，它起源于14世纪的英格兰，被15世纪波西米亚胡斯派的激进代表所采用，传到波罗的海国家，并传到路德那里，他准备了一份带有自己序言的打印件，于1528年在维滕贝格出版。

The Churches of the Reformation founded their alleged identity of being the true church of Christ not only in a dogmatical or ethical way but even in a historical one. While the papal church throughout history had apostatized from its divine calling, the reformers saw themselves in succession of medieval predecessors, who were lined up by God as witnesses of the truth even in times of decline. At the beginning was the thesis - formulated already in 1519 - of Jan Hus being Luther's precursor; Luther, Melanchthon and their followers gradually developed an explicitly reformatory and protestant view of ecclesiastical history and the reformation was presented as goal and end of a series of evangelical witnesses of the truth. This concept had impact on both the concept of history and the discourse on protestant identity even beyond premodern times. In its classical shape, the paradigm of witnesses of the truth was represented by the "Catalogus testium veritatis" published by Matthias Flacius Illyricus in 1556 and again in 1562. In a modified way it even can be found in the Protestant martyrologies written by Ludwig Rabus, Jean Crespin and John Foxe. In contrast to these works another important medium that helped establishing the narrative of the historical identity of Protestantism, has not yet been explored systematically: the printings of medieval texts that were procured by reformers or reformatory minded printers for claiming these or their authors as witnesses of the truth. Luther himself arranged a number of such printings and added his own prefaces, especially during the years 1522-1528. Furthermore there have been several similar printings in the 16th and 17th centuries in different European countries. This project aims to create a complete repertory of printings that were used as evangelical witnesses of the truth all over Europe until this discourse lost its significance, which is being dated to the 17th century by recent research. Thus we shall create an instrument for reconstructing the personal, local and temporal dynamics of the production of this special kind of protestant literature as well as measuring its importance for the confessional conflicts of their time. A first evaluation of the data shall take place at a conference of experts. The repertory will be supplemented by a critical edition of an important example of a printed "witness of the truth". For this purpose, the "Opus arduum valde" has been selected, a commentary of the Book of Revelation, that has its origins in 14th century England, was adopted by radical exponents of the 15th century Bohemian Hussites, passed to the Baltic states and reached Luther, who prepared a printout with his own preface, that was published in Wittenberg in 1528.