A Voice from the Medieval Hearth: The Life and Legacy of Johannes Pauli Johannes Pauli, born around 1455 in the small Franconian village of Pfettisheim, Germany, remains a fascinating yet somewhat enigmatic figure in the landscape of late medieval German literature. His life, pieced together from fragmented records and scholarly conjecture, reveals a man deeply embedded in the religious and social currents of his time—a Franciscan wri…