The Unterricht der Visitatoren (1528). Origin, significance and historical impact of the first normative group text of the Wittenberg circle

该项目申请了AIMS，这是第一步，在魏玛图林国家档案馆和其他档案馆和图书馆现有16世纪印刷品和新获得的原始资料的基础上，制作一个关键遗传版本的Unterricht der Visitatoren。它们使得第一次有可能详细地重建这一维滕贝格改革的核心文件的出现。关于《游记》作者身份的广泛争论现在可以得到明确的答案：菲利普·梅兰克森和马丁·路德都不是文本的唯一创造者。相反，它必须推定，这是一个集体的工作，例如约翰尼斯布根亨或希罗尼莫斯舒尔夫也作出了贡献，并认为他们在1525年至1527年之间的访问的实际经验影响了文本。为了更多地阐明历史渊源，将选择1527年夏秋两季选举顾问的信件，在计划出版的版本中出版。新发现的第一手资料将由哥达研究图书馆在数字图书馆网站上以数字形式(扫描)获取。项目的第二步是在第一步的基础上，以介绍性评论的形式阐明16世纪维滕贝格神学家圈的这一规范性文件的历史背景、意义和历史接受情况。这将不会简单地假设，路德神学或梅兰奇森的综合意图渗透在这本手册的介绍改革，而是维滕贝格神学家有意识地试图与法律学者和法院顾问密切合作，以建立一个共识，他们试图在接下来的几年举行。然而，如果没有领土王子承担圣公会的职能，这样的共识是不可想象的。

The project applied for aims in the first step at producing a critical-genetic edition of the Unterricht der Visitatoren on the basis of pre-existing prints from the 16th century and newly accessible primary sources in the Main Thuringian State Archive in Weimar and in other archives and libraries. They make it possible for the first time to reconstruct the emergence of this central document of the Wittenberg Reformation in detail. The widely debated question of authorship of the Unterricht der Visitatoren can now be clearly answered: neither Philipp Melanchthon nor Martin Luther was the sole creator of the text. Rather, it must be presumed that it was a collective work which for example Johannes Bugenhagen or Hieronymus Schurff also contributed to and that their practical experiences in the visitations between 1525 and 1527 influenced the text. In order to shed more light upon the historical origins, letters from correspondences of electoral advisors from the summer and autumn of 1527 will be selected for publication in the planned edition. The newly discovered primary sources will be made accessible in digital form (scans) by the Gotha Research Library at the site of the Digital Library. The second step of the projects builds on the first and aims at elucidating the historical background, the significance and the historical reception of this normative document of the 16th century circle of Wittenberg theologians in the form of an introductory commentary. It will not be simply assumed that Luthers theology or Melanchthons integrative intentions permeate this manual for the introduction of the Reformation, but rather that the Wittenberg theologians consciously attempted in close cooperation with legal scholars and court advisors to establish a consensus which they tried to hold to in the following years. Such a consensus would, however, not have been conceivable without the territorial prince assuming episcopal functions.