Lutheran humanists and Greek antiquity [[electronic resource] ] : Melanchthonian scholarship between universal history and pedagogy / / by Asaph Ben-Tov

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910785423703321
• Autore: Ben-Tov Asaph
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden [Netherlands] ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2009
• ISBN: 1-282-95113-0; 9786612951138; 90-474-4395-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (248 p.)
• Collana: Brill's studies in intellectual history, , 0920-8607 ; ; v. 183
• Disciplina: 938.0072/02
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Based on the author's thesis--Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.