A unique resource, but you need to know Latin
The book's Part I, pp.1?364, offers documents of the Lutheran, Part II, pp. 365-715, of the Reformed movements: A. Zwingli and Calvin. B. Calvinism Beyond Geneva. A rich Index, pp. 717?742, is invaluable.
Although a work published in 1911, the selection of relevant documents is in my view simply superb. On the basis of Kidd's choice, one can reconstruct the sequence of events as reflected in broadsides, pronouncements, and theological disquisitions. The documents are, of course, not inclusive, and at times excerpts, but it will be easy to move on to the massive corpus of published primary sources for the continental break-up of institutional Western Christianity.
I used the collection of documents for an initial documentation of the rise of the Anabaptist movement out of the Zwinglian theological and institutional shift. Kidds choice of sources allows the reader to grasp Conrad Grebel's and his associates' friendship with Zwingli and agreement with his views as well as the step by step alienation of the Anabaptist leaders that ends in mortal enmity within a two-year span.
The annotations and the Index are superb, ? the book is simply a marvelous tool created by a first-rate British scholar.
A caveat: The print is small, the Latin at times challenging, and a century more of research not to be neglected, especially newer source editions, once a primary document has become central to one's research.
