Albrecht von Eyb is regarded as one of the earliest German humanists. Max Herrmann called him the first German humanist to embrace not only the external form (Gestalt) but also the inner spirit (Gehalt) of the new learning. Joseph Anthony Hiller, on the other hand, regarded him as a "literary, medieval moralist, a medieval thinker, rather than a 'humanist,'" a view that has not found much favor. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two positions: in some respects Eyb was, indeed, a latter-day medieval moralist, but his encounter with the studia humanitatis of fifteenth-century Italy left an indelible mark on much of his writing. Helmut Weinacht, while preferring to attach no labels, would, if pressed, call him a Christian humanist. Today he is remembered above all for his translations of plays by Titus Maccius Plautus, but his views on marriage are also attracting renewed scholarly interest...