Lutheran humanists and Greek antiquity : Melanchthonian scholarship between universal history and pedagogy / by Asaph Ben-Tov.

This book probes attitudes towards Greek antiquity by Lutheran humanists, posited in their sixteenth century context within the framework of Protestant universal history, pedagogical concerns, and the newly made acquaintance with Byzantine texts and post-Byzantine Greeks.

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Main Author: Ben-Tov, Asaph
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
Series:Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 183.
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Table of Contents:
  • Greek antiquity in Lutheran universal history
  • Lutheran humanists and Byzantium: the scope of Greek antiquity
  • Lutheran humanists on Greek: the history of Greek and Greek in history
  • Some Lutheran readings of Greek texts
  • Graecia transvolavit Alpes.