I am attempting to compile a bibliography of materials on the role of books and reading in the Reformation period. Rather than provide such a cumbersome list here on the blog, I have decided to play with WorldCat’s lists feature because of its simple “Citations” view for easy import into Zotero. Any you with a preference for either WorldCat or some other discovery tool like Primo please comment on which you prefer and why.

You may view the still-in-progress bibliography here: http://www.worldcat.org/profiles/paul.commonplaces/lists/2906205

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For those of you who might be interested, I am speaking at an upcoming mini-conference being held at Southern Seminary, November 2, 2011. I will be speaking on Pierre Viret from a much-expanded form of a paper I delivered at the Refo500 Research Consortium (RefoRC) in Zürich last June, and will be drawing connections between his ecclesiology, his political writings, and his piety in a way that I hope will be helpful.

The conference is being hosted by The Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. Many, many, thanks to Dr. Michael A. G. Haykin for the invitation and opportunity.

La Réforme: Celebrating the French Reformation on the Quincentennial of Pierre Viret (1511–71), November 2, 2011 9am – 12pm, Heritage Hall, Southern Seminary.

Schedule: [Online]

• 9:00 am – An Introduction to the French Reformation
  Michael Haykin, Professor of Church History, SBTS,
  and the Director of the Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies
• 9:15 am – Pierre Viret and the Politics of Piety
  Paul Roberts, Director of Patron Services,
  James P. Boyce Centennial Library
• 10:15 am – Break
• 10:35 am – Calvin and his Prayers
  Dustin Benge, SBTS Student
• 10:50 am – The Pastoral Vision of Theodore Beza (1519-1605)
  Shawn Wright, Professor of Church History, SBTS
• 11:50 am – Concluding Words

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Attention students of the Reformation: I just learned that Zwingli’s Werke (Works) and Briefe (Letters) are now available online, fully searchable, for free, thanks to the Institut für Schweizerische Reformationsgeschichte (IRG) at the Universität Zürich. They are both linked via this announcement from the IRG. I presented a paper there at a conference back in June (2011) and remain impressed, challenged, and grateful for their work.

• Huldrych Zwingli Werke: Digitale Texte:
  Volltexte von Huldreich Zwinglis sämtliche Werke, Bd. 1-6.5 (Corpus Reformatorum 88-93.5)
• Huldrych Zwingli Briefe: Digitale Texte:
  Volltexte von Huldreich Zwinglis sämtliche Werke, Bd. 7-9 (Corpus Reformatorum 94-96)

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