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RUNDLE, CHARLES & ELIZABETH Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family by Two of Themselves
Dodd, Mead & Company, 1868. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Light foxing on page ridges, a few spots on cover, otherwise very good -- binding tight, pages clean and bright. Red boards with black & gold lettering & design. 552 pages. CONTENTS: Else's Introduction of Herself and Chronicle; Her Brother Friedrich (Fritz); Her Ancestry; Other Members of the Family; Delicate Irony; Martin Luther; Else's Treasures; Friedrich's Chronicle; Sage Reflections; Leaves Home for Erfurt; Gets Lost in a Forest; A Gloomy Night; Arrives at Erfurt; The University; Visits Luther's Home with Him; Accident to Luther; Obtains a Scholarship; Luther Dangerously Ill; Else's Chronicle; Eva, a Distant Relative, Introduced into the Family; Discussions Among Them Connected with the Event; Eva's Religion; Its Peculiarity; Makes a Deep Impression; Legend of St. Christopher; Else's Chronicle Continued; Fritz at Home Again; The Change Which His University Life is Producing in Him; Interesting Family Developments; Eva Begins Latin; Extract from Friedrich's Chronicle; More of Martin Luther; He Discovers a Latin Bible in the University Library; The Plague Breaks Out in the University; Luther Determines to Become a Monk; The Excitement and Distress Among His Friends; His Monkish Life; Else's Chronicle; A Terrible Time; The Plague in Eisenach; In the Family; Fritz's Attack and Recovery; Eva's Attack; Fritz's Interview with Her When Supposed to Be Dying; Friedrich's Story; He Becomes an Augustinian Monk in Luther's Cloister; What He Writes from There January, 20th, 1510; The Bible Discovered by Luther Put in His Hands; April 9th, He Finds the Missing Part of Eva's Bible Sentence; Frequent References to Luther; Else's Story; Her Mental Conflicts on Account of Fritz; Her Other Brothers Repudiate Monks; More of Eva; Dr. Tetzel; His Sale of Indulgences; What Was Thought of the Matter; Eva's Legend of St. Catherine; Else's Visit to the Elector; Fritz's Story; The Vicar-General Staupitz; Evangelical Instruction Received from Him and His Confessor; Fritz is Ordered to Rome; Tauler's Sermons; Augustine's Manuscript Confessions; Finds His Companion to Rome is to Be Martin Luther; Luther Tells Him About His Beginning to Preach; Their Journey to Rome; Luther and Staupitz; The Light Breaking on Fritz's Mind; A Benedictine Monastery; Rome Reached; Else's Story; The Family Leave for Wittenberg; Their New Place of Residence and Relations; Their Journey from Eisenach; More of Eva; The Mystery; Plays Acted in the Churches; Eva Decides on Being a Nun; Fritz's Story; The Monks at Rome; Festivals and Sacred Ceremonies; Holy Relics; Luther's Strange Conduct at the Holy Staircase; Corruption and Wickedness of the Holy City; Inquiries Concerning Their Pilgrimage; Eva's Story; Her Life at the Convent; Sister Beatrice; Aunt Agnes; Else's Story; Home Life; The Father's Latest Invention; Ulrich von Gersdorf and Chriemhild; Herr Reichenbach; More of Luther; His Instructions to Else and Her New Religious Experiences; Her Betrothal to Herr Reichenbach; Luther's Debate in Favor of the Bible; His Opinions Deeply Impressing Other Minds; Eva's Story; Convent Life; Luther Appointed Deputy Vicar-General; His Evangelical Sentiments; Aunt Agnes; Else's Story; Chriemhild and Ulrich Married; The Plague at Wittenberg; Letter from Dr. Luther; Tetzel and a Specimen of His Indulgences; Repudiated by Luther; Luther's Sermon Before the Elector; Else's Story Continued; November 1, 1517; Luther's Theses Against Indulgences; Their Effect on the Community; The Students Burn Tetzel's Answer to Luther; Fritz's Story; A Review; His Mission Through Germany; A Priest and Woman; Gets Unlooked-For News in the Thuringian Forest; Luther's Theses at Tubingen; Philip Melancthon at Wittenberg; Fritz Visits His Home; Placed at the Monastery at Mainz; John Wessel; Else's Story; Family Events Since She Last Wrote; Luther and Melancthon; Their Relations to and Opinions of Each Other; Luther's Appeal to the Emperor; Melancthon's Wife; Luther Publishes Another Work, "The Babylonish Captivity"; His "Appeal to the Nobility"; December 10th, 1520; The Plot Thickens; Luther Burns the Decretals and the Pope's Bull Against Himself; Public Excitement and Condition of Wittenberg; Eva's Story; She Reads the Bible to Others in the Convent; Its Effect; Discovers That Her Father Was a Hussite; Luther's Last Book in the Convent; His Commentary on the Psalms Appears; Fritz Imprisoned at Mainz; His Letter to His Friends; Its Effect Upon Eva; Thekla's Story; Luther Takes His Departure for Worms; Her Attachment to Him for His Religious Instructions; How the Others Felt; Luther's Triumphal Journey; He Preaches at Erfurt; Fritz's Story; Cause of His Imprisonment; His Escape from Prison and Reception at the Castle of Ebernburg; An Attempt to Discourage Luther from Going to Worms; It Fails; Affecting Incidents of His Journey; His Entry into Worms; His Appearance Before the Diet; His Mental Conflict That Night; Second Appearance Before the Diet; Result; He Suddenly Disappears; His Friends Fear the Worst; Fritz Becomes a Hawker of Luther's Writings; Fritz's Story; His Success in Selling Luther's Publications; Sentiments Concerning Luther Among the Different Classes He Fell in With; Fritz at Paris; At Basil; Ulrich von Hutten; Interview with Erasmus at Zurich; Zwingle; What the Swiss Thought of Luther; Fritz in Prison at Franconia; Priest Ruprecht and His Woman Again; Thekla's Story; Fritz Escapes; Chriemhild and Ulrich; Condition of the Peasants; Luther is Discovered; His Refuge at the Castle of Wartburg; There Engaged in Translating the Bible into German; Thekla Reads Portions of it to the People; A Letter from Her Lover Bertrand; Eva's Story; She Receives Some Sheets of Luther's German Bible; Its Effect in the Convent; Luther's Theses Against Monastic Life Reach Her; Monks Returning to Ordinary Life; Several of the Younger Nuns Abjuring Convent Life; Eva Hesitates; She Hears of Fritz's Imprisonment; Death of Beatrice; Eva Prepares to Escape from the Convent; Else's Story; Indulgences Again for Sale at Halle; Luther's Safety and Place of Refuge Becomes Privately Known; His New Protest Against Indulgence-Mongers; Its Effect; Augustine Monks Abandoning Monkish Life; Effect of the Proceeding; Domestic Matters; The Sacramental Supper Observed in German; The Mother Leads the Way; The Zwickhau Prophets; Another Cause of Excitement; Eva Finally Reaches Home; Else's Story; Luther Reappears in Wittenberg; He Meets the People Again in the Pulpit; The Scene; His Sermon; Its Effect; Other Sermons and Their Effect; A Family Discussion; Luther and Zwickian Prophets; They Leave Wittenberg; Atlantis's Story; Concerning Herself; Her Copy of Kessler's Narrative; The Black Bear Inn; Luther in Disguise; His Place of Refuge Discovered; Eva's Story; Wittenberg and Her Friends; September 21, 1522; The German New Testament Published; Thekla's Story; Hears Again from Bertrand; More of the German New Testament; A Scene; Fritz Suddenly Appears Among Them, Having Escaped from Prison; Fritz's Story; December 1st, 1522; He and Eva Become Betrothed, and in a Few Weeks to Be Married; The Relations of Monkish and Convent Life to This Event; Their Future Home; What Eva Has to Say; Else's Story; The Interest Taken in the Marriage of Fritz and Eva; Atlantis and Conrad; A Visit of Hussites; The Pairs Married; Their Departure from Home; Nine of Eva's Friends Escape from the Convent; Catherine von Bora the Guest of the Cottas; Eva's Story; Their Life Among the People; Chriemhild and Ulrich; Priest Ruprecht Reappears; The Woman Bertha Brought to Fritz's House; The Priest and Woman Married; Else's Story; Death of the Grandmother; Troublous Times; Uneasiness Among the Peasantry; The Zwickhau Prophets Again; The Peasants in Open Revolt; How Fritz and Luther Act; The Revolt Suppressed; Luther and Catherine von Bora the Escaped Nun; The Elector's Death; Its Effect; Luther and Catherine Married, June 23, 1525; Thekla's Lover, Bertrand, Dies in Prison; Divisions Among Reformed Christians; Luther and His Home; Else Visits Eva; Parsonage Scenes; The Gersdorfs; Fritz at Home; Thekla's Story; Her Sore Trial in the Loss of Bertrand; Else's Story; A Convent Becomes a Nursery; Luther as a Father and Husband; His Differences with Others of the Reformers; His Interest in Children; His Love for a Daughter; Germany and Luther; Thekla's Story; Effect of Her Affliction; Her School; Christmas; Luther's Favourite Child Sickens and Dies; The Mother's Story; What She Says of Her Children; Eva's and Agnes's Story; A Lutheran Home; Thekla's Story; Luther; He Completes His Commentary on Genesis; Affecting Incident Connected With It; He Goes to Eisleben; His Wife's Foreboding; Letters to Her; He Succeeds in His Mission, the Adjustment of Difference Among His Friends; Fritz's Story; Of Luther's Visit to Them at Eisleben; Interesting Interview; Concern About Luther's Health; February 18, 1543, Luther Taken Suddenly Ill and Dies; His Last Hours; Else's Story; Luther's Funeral and Honours Paid to His Memory; Conclusion of the Family History.
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