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Philipp Melanchthon
Philipp Melanchthon wirkte vor allem als akademischer Lehrer an der Universität. Als Autor wissenschaftlicher Bücher beeinflusste er Generationen von Studenten. Als Reformator neben Luther prägte er die evangelische Kirche in Deutschland und darüber hinaus. Aber wie wurde er in der populären Kultur der Nachwelt gesehen? Eine Antwort gibt erstmals der vorliegende Aufsatzband. 16 Autorinnen und Autoren verfolgen Melanchthons Rezeption in der Belletristik und in Schulbüchern. Sie befassen sich mit der Druckgrafik des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts, mit Historienbildern und Porträtbüsten, den modernen audiovisuellen Medien, aber auch mit touristischen Souvenirs. Wie wurde Melanchthon gefeiert,...
The Beginning of the Reformation. Wittenberg in 1517
Stefan Rhein wählt für dieses Buch einen naheliegend logischen Ansatz: den Blick auf das Jahr 1517, den Blick auf das Jahr der Erneuerung des Glaubens - und beschreibt den Zustand der Stadt, der Bauten, der Institutionen, der Menschen. Die Antwort auf die Frage?Ohne Wittenberg keine Reformation??, nicht leicht, aber eindeutig zu beantworten: auf Seite 106!0Dr. Stefan Rhein ist Vorstand und Direktor der Stiftung Luthergedenkstätten in Sachsen-Anhalt.
Zeichen der Identität
Das Erscheinen der ersten Luther-Medaillen vor über 500 Jahren, um 1521, ist der Anlass, in einem breiten Überblick die Entstehung, Entwicklung, Ikonographie und Funktion der Reformationsmedaillen zu betrachten. Bereits die frühen Medaillen bilden reformatorische Ideen ab, wenn sie das "Licht" der Reformation gegen die "päpstliche Dunkelheit" ins Bild setzen. In den Säkularfeiern ab 1617 werden die geprägten Schaumünzen zu sichtbaren Zeichen der sich entwickelnden und verändernden konfessionellen Identitäten der evangelischen Kirchen. Der Aufsatzband schlägt den Bogen vom 16. Jahrhundert über die Münzen und Medaillen als Mittel der konfessionellen Polemik und Propaganda bis hin z...
Dying for the Faith, Killing for the Faith
The history of influence of the old testamentary Maccabees is the focus of the essays collected in this book, which extend thematically and chronologically from the cult of martyrs in late antiquity to the time of the modern wars of liberation.
The Reformation of Historical Thought
In The Reformation of Historical Thought, Mark Lotito re-examines the development of Western historiography by concentrating on Philipp Melanchthon (1497-1560) and his universal history, Carion’s Chronicle (1532), which transformed the early modern understanding of the Holy Roman Empire.
Johannes Reuchlin and the Campaign to Destroy Jewish Books
The early sixteenth century saw a major crisis in Christian-Jewish relations: the attempt to confiscate and destroy every Jewish book in Germany. This unprecedented effort to end the practice of Judaism throughout the empire was challenged by Jewish communities, and, unexpectedly, by Johannes Reuchlin (1455-1522), the founder of Christian Hebrew studies. In 1510, Reuchlin wrote an extensive, impassioned, and ultimately successful defense of Jewish writings and legal rights, a stunning intervention later acknowledged by a Jewish leader as a ''miracle within a miracle.''The fury that greeted Reuchlin's defense of Judaism resulted in a protracted heresy trial that polarized Europe. The decade-l...
Early Modern Print Media and the Art of Observation
Early modern printmakers trained observers to scan the heavens above as well as faces in their midst. Peter Apian printed the Cosmographicus Liber (1524) to teach lay astronomers their place in the cosmos, while also printing practical manuals that translated principles of spherical astronomy into useful data for weather watchers, farmers, and astrologers. Physiognomy, a genre related to cosmography, taught observers how to scrutinize profiles in order to sum up peoples' characters. Neither Albrecht Dürer nor Leonardo escaped the tenacious grasp of such widely circulating manuals called practica. Few have heard of these genres today, but the kinship of their pictorial programs suggests that printers shaped these texts for readers who privileged knowledge retrieval. Cultivated by images to become visual learners, these readers were then taught to hone their skills as observers. This book unpacks these and other visual strategies that aimed to develop both the literate eye of the reader and the sovereignty of images in the early modern world.
Neo-Latin Drama in Early Modern Europe
From ca. 1300 a new genre developed in European literature, Neo-Latin drama. Building on medieval drama, vernacular theatre and classical drama, it spread around Europe. It was often used as a means to educate young boys in Latin, in acting and in moral issues. Comedies, tragedies and mixed forms were written. The Societas Jesu employed Latin drama in their education and public relations on a large scale. They had borrowed the concept of this drama from the humanist and Protestant gymnasia, and perfected it to a multi media show. However, the genre does not receive the attention that it deserves. In this volume, a historical overview of this genre is given, as well as analyses of separate plays. Contributors include: Jan Bloemendal, Jean-Frédéric Chevalier, Cora Dietl, Mathieu Ferrand, Howard Norland, Joaquín Pascual Barea, Fidel Rädle, and Raija Sarasti Willenius.
Latin Scientific Literature, 1450-1850
During the early modern period, the emergence of what ultimately became modern science took place mainly in Latin, the international language of educated discourse of the era. Hundreds of thousands of scientific texts were published in Latin from the invention of print around 1450 to the demise of Latin as a language of science around 1850. Despite its importance, our knowledge of this literature is extremely limited. This book aims to provide an overview of this area, the first ever to be written. It does so, not from the perspective of a natural scientist or a historian of science, but of a literary scholar. Instead of the scientific content or methodology of the respective works, it focus...
