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"

宗教改革的教会建立了他们所谓的身份是真正的基督教会不仅在一个教条或道德的方式，但甚至在一个历史的。虽然历史上的教皇教会已经背离了它的神圣召唤，但改革者们认为自己继承了中世纪的前辈，即使在衰落的时候，他们也被上帝列为真理的见证人。在开始的论文-制定已经在1519年-扬胡斯是路德的先驱;路德，梅兰希顿和他们的追随者逐渐发展出一个明确的改革和新教的看法教会的历史和改革提出的目标和结束的一系列福音派证人的真理。这一概念对历史概念和新教身份话语的影响甚至超过了前现代。在其经典的形式，真理的证人的范例是由“Catalogus testium veritatis”出版的马蒂亚斯Flacius Illyricus在1556年，并再次在1562年。在一个修改的方式，它甚至可以发现在新教martyrologies写的路德维希拉布斯，让克雷斯平和约翰福克斯。与这些作品相反，另一个有助于建立新教历史身份叙述的重要媒介尚未被系统地探索：中世纪文本的印刷品，这些印刷品是由改革者或具有改革思想的印刷商购买的，因为他们声称这些或他们的作者是真理的证人。路德自己安排了一些这样的印刷品，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品库，这些印刷品在整个欧洲被用作真理的福音派见证人，直到这一话语失去其意义，最近的研究将其追溯到17世纪世纪。因此，我们将创造一种工具，来重建这种特殊类型的新教文学作品的个人、地方和时间动态，并衡量其对当时教派冲突的重要性。第一次数据评估应在专家会议上进行。该剧目将补充一个印刷的“真理的证人”的重要例子的关键版。为此目的，“作品arduum valde”已被选中，启示录的评论，有其起源于14世纪英格兰，是通过了激进的指数15日世纪波希米亚胡斯派，传递到波罗的海国家，并达到路德，谁准备了一本书与他自己的序言，这是在维滕贝格出版于1528年。

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.