Huldrych Zwingli's Private Library

An extensive introduction to Zwingli's reading and his intellectual world as well as inventories of the still extant and lost books of his library.

About the author

Urs B. Leu, Dr. phil. (1990) in History, University of Zürich, is Director of the Rare Book Department of the Zentralbibliothek Zürich. He has written extensively on Conrad Gessner (1516-1565) and the Swiss reformation as well as the history of books.

Sandra Weidmann is Librarian in the Rare Book Department of the Zentralbibliothek Zürich. Together with Urs B. Leu she published Heinrich Bullingers Privatbibliothek(TVZ, 2004) and Conrad Gessner's Private Library (Brill, 2008).

Product details

• Authors: Urs Leu, Sandra Weidmann
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.12.2018
• EAN: 9789004383760
• ISBN: 978-90-04-38376-0
• No. of pages: 260
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 243 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 491 g
• Series: Studies in Medieval and Reform
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)