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First page of Zwingli’s record of a conversation with Philipp Melanchthon at Marburg, 30 September 1529. A surviving manuscript, not an imagined scene of the meeting.
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Huldrych Zwingli / Zentralbibliothek Zürich · Ms Z XI 313.1 · e-manuscripta.ch · Public Domain Mark · Resized without cropping and converted to WebP · Licence terms

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Zwingli, Zurich and Marburg: Scripture, reform and disagreement

A surviving manuscript brings us close to a divided Reformation. Explore Zurich’s civic reforms, the Marburg dispute and the ways later Protestant historians understood their spiritual meaning.

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