Lutheran Humanists and Greek Antiquity

Melanchthonian Scholarship Between Universal History and Pedagogy
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-04-17965-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 183, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ben-Tov, Asaph

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Note on names and abbreviations
Introduction

1 Greek Antiquity in Lutheran Universal History
2 Lutheran Humanists and Byzantium: The Scope of Greek Antiquity
3 Lutheran Humanists on Greek: The History of Greek and Greek in History
4 Some Lutheran Readings of Greek Texts
5 Graecia transvolavit Alpes

Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Asaph Ben-Tov, Ph.D. (2007) in History, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. His fields of interest are late humanism in Germany and the role of the Classical tradition and Orientalism in seventeenth and eighteenth century scholarship.