'...Brann's book demonstrates the value of Trithemius's career and
writings for an understanding of a neglected ideal and movement
that paralleled and even flourished alongside lay humanistic
developments of the time.'
Neo-Latin News, 1982.
'...a substantial work, in which he looks at Trithemius' early
life, the beginnings of his campaign, his many writings, all in
context, and with a full and often rich commentary which does much
to illuminate them.'
G.R. Evans, Journal of Theological Studies, 1982.
'...a vivid illustration of what Paul Kristeller has identified
recently as an unjustly neglected thread of Renaissance thought,
namely, the interaction of certain late medieval monastic writers
with currents of Renaissance humanism.'
Eric W. Gritsch, Church History, 1983.
'...ist als willkommene Bereicherung der Trithemius-Lit. sehr zu
begrüßen.'
John L. Flood, Germanistik, 1985.
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