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Lutheran Humanists and Greek Antiquity: Melanchthonian Scholarship Between Universal History and Pedagogy

  • Hardback
  • 248 pages
  • Publisher: Brill
  • 16.3 x 23.9 x 2.3 cm

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The textual monuments of Greco-Roman antiquity, as is well known, were a staple of Europe's educated classes since the Renaissance. That the Reformation ushered in a new understanding of human fate and history is equally a commonplace of modern scholarship. The present study probes attitudes towards Greek antiquity by of a group of Lutheran humanists. Concentrating on Philipp Melanchthon, several of his colleagues and students, and a broader Melanchthonian milieu, a Lutheran understanding of Pagan and Christian Greek antiquity is traced in its sixteenth century context, positing it within the framework of Protestant universal history, pedagogical concerns, and the newly made acquaintance with Byzantine texts and post-Byzantine Greeks - demonstrating the need to historicize Antiquity itself in Renaissance studies and beyond.
Lutheran Humanists and Greek Antiquity: Melanchthonian Scholarship Between Universal History and Pedagogy and Knowledge and Profanation: Transgressing the Boundaries of Religion in Premodern Scholarship
Knowledge and Profanation: Transgressing the Boundaries of Religion in Premodern ScholarshipLutheran Humanists and Greek Antiquity: Melanchthonian Scholarship Between Universal History and Pedagogy

  • Title

    Lutheran Humanists and Greek Antiquity: Melanchthonian Scholarship Between Universal History and Pedagogy

  • Author

    Asaph Ben-Tov

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Brill

  • Published

    November 2009

  • Weight

    500g

  • Page Count

    248

  • Dimensions

    16.3 x 23.9 x 2.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9789004179653

  • ISBN-10

    9004179658

  • Eden Code

    4725153

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