Alas, a Lack: Trends in the Historiography of Pre-University Education in Early Modern Germany
T HREE MAJOR THEMES EITHER have or ought to have affected the recent study of pre-university education in Germany between about I400 and 1700. These are the Reformation and schooling; the so-called "new history" of education; and the current wave of research on literacy in Renaissance, Reformation, and CounterReformation Europe. The works cited should be considered illustrative of investigation carried out and issues debated during approximately the last twenty years. Although the preponderance of new literature is local in scope and published in the myriad city and territorial journals throughout Germany, the persevering party will be led through my examples to the larger body of sources, both old and new, German and non-German.