We, the Editors of Traditio: Studies in Ancient and Medieval History, Religion and Thought, and our publisher Cambridge University Press have retracted the following article: Stone, M. W. F., “Adrian of Utrecht and the University of Louvain: Theology and the Discussion of Moral Problems in the Late Fifteenth Century,” Traditio 61 (2006): 247–267.
We have learned that a large portion of this article is, in fact, an uncredited translation into English of portions of Rudolf Branko Hein, “Gewissen” bei Adrian von Utrecht (Hadrian VI.), Erasmus von Rotterdam und Thomas More: Ein Beitrag zur systematischen Analyse des Gewissensbegriffs in der katholischen nordeuropäischen Renaissance, Studien der Moraltheologie, Band 10 (Münster: LiT Verlag, 1999), pp. 175–203.
As a result, we have decided to retract the article from publication, since our readers otherwise have no way of knowing that substantial parts of the article, which are presented as though they were the result of M. W. F. Stone's research, were in fact appropriated and merely translated without proper attribution from the original work by Rudolf Branko Hein. The retracted article will remain online, but each page will be digitally watermarked as “Retracted.”
