Cicero in Heaven

The Roman Rhetor and Luther’s Reformation

AvCarl P.E. Springer

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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Beskrivning

In Cicero in Heaven: The Roman Rhetor and Luther’s Reformation, Carl Springer traces the historical outlines of Cicero’s rhetorical legacy, paying special attention to the momentous impact that he had on Luther, his colleagues at the University of Wittenberg, and later Lutherans. While the revival of interest in Cicero’s rhetoric is more often associated with the Renaissance than with the Reformation, it would be a mistake to overlook the important role that Luther and other reformers played in securing Cicero’s place in the curricula of schools in modern Europe (and America). Luther’s attitude towards Cicero was complex, and the final chapter of the book discusses negative reactions to Cicero in the Reformation and the centuries that followed.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-10-12
Mått:155 x 235 x 24 mm
Vikt:631 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:St Andrews Studies in Reformation History
Antal sidor:291
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004355156

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Carl P.E. Springer, Ph.D. (1984, University of Wisconsin-Madison) is SunTrust Chair of Excellence in the Humanities at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga. He has written extensively on the relationship between Martin Luther and the Classics, including Luther’s Aesop (Kirksville, 2011).

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“Finely tuned and sensitively presented insights like those in the author’s treatment of rhetorical elements in church music appear throughout the book. Its elegant prose is eminently readable; the wide variety of tidbits of information offered is pleasantly surprising as well as entertaining. As far as Luther is concerned, the book also dazzles with a copious selection of quotations which will be useful for the future researcher. The educated public as well as the specialist reader will find enlightenment and entertainment in this book.”Johann Ramminger, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2018.07.03.“learned and engaging”Neal Leroux, University of Minnesota. In: Lutheran Quarterly, Vol. 33, No. 2 (Summer 2019), pp. 231-233.

Innehållsförteckning

PrefaceProlegomenaList of Abbreviations1 Cicero and Christian Latin Eloquence1 Non Hominis Nomen Sed Eloquentiae2 “Spoiling The Egyptians”3 Renaissance Humanism4 Reformation Latin2 “The Real German Cicero”1 “I Love Cicero”2 Optimus Philosophus3 Parrhesiastics3 Cicero and Wittenberg Education1 Humanist Educationand Cicero2 Luther’s Latin House of Learning3 Praeceptor Germaniae4 “Cicero Refused to Die”1 Johann Sturm and The Ratio Studiorum2 The Teacher of Modern Europe3 Bach, the Latin Teacher4 Cicero, Illinois5 Lutheranism and anti-Ciceronianism1 The Vernacular Reformation2 “One word of Paul’s likely has three ciceronian orations in it”3 Anti-Ciceronianism, Flacius, and Bengel4 Cicero in Hell5 Cicero Americanus and the American AdamEpilogueWorks Cited