A new biography captures the misunderstood faith of Huldrych Zwingli. Huldrych Zwingli (1484–1531) has not usually fared well at the hands of historians. Whether cast as Martin Luther’s antagonist or ...

Five Hundred years ago, the Protestant Swiss reformer, Ulrich Zwingli’s theology was designated the official religion of Zurich. The rumblings of the Reformation were just starting. As education ...

The talents of historians rarely extend to poetry. I remember reading the TLS of 4 March 1977 and cringing at the discovery that my doctoral supervisor, Geoffrey Elton, had indulged in a penchant for ...

"For God's sake, do not put yourself at odds with the Word of God. For truly it will persist as surely as the Rhine follows its course. One can perhaps dam it up for awhile, but it is impossible to ...

Located in Kreis 1 in the Old Town, the Grossmunster church was the starting place of the Protestant Reformation in Zurich. Preacher Huldrych Zwingli initiated the movement from this austere church's ...

“Ah God! If only Adam had eaten a pear!” So wrote the young Swiss Priest Ulrich Zwingli in the margin of a copy of St. Augustine’s City of God. It was the half-quizzical, wholly anguished cry of a man ...

Ulrich Zwingli has been remembered at an ecumenical service in Zurich, Switzerland. Zwingli quarrelled with Germany's Martin Luther about the ritual of communion. The Federation of Swiss Protestant ...

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Just two days after the new trailer, fresh artwork and images have been unveiled. The historical drama directed by Stefan Haupt hits cinemas in January 2019. Zurich in 1519. Young widow Anna Reinhart ...

The images are dreadful, the screams heart-wrenching, the torments beyond the bounds of imagination. Anna Reinhart (Sarah Sophia Meyer) is doubled over before an altar in Zurich's Grossmünster, ...

(MENAFN- Swissinfo) For over a year, Hulda Zwingli, a collective of Swiss women in the art world, has been tackling the under-representation of women artists in the local press, museums, and ...

ZURICH — On a recent trip to this city, I found it energized by exhibitions that compose a vivid picture of women’s historical underrepresentation in art and museums. In particular, the shows all ...