Matthäus von Krakau

Matthew of Cracow, an outstanding theologian at the universities of Prague and Heidelberg, was renowned as a preacher, an author of wide-ranging moral writings and as a partisan of church reform during the Great Schism. He became a counsellor to the German king Ruprecht I and bishop of Worms, and at the end of his life was appointed cardinal by the Roman pope. Matthias Nuding presents Matthew's life and works in their historical context with a special emphasis on manuscript tradition, including an itinerary, a critically revised list of his writings and editions of several unpublished texts.