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Record Nr.

UNISA996210560803316

Titolo

Luther's lives [[electronic resource] ] : two contemporary accounts of Martin Luther / / translated and annotated by Elizabeth Vandiver, Ralph Keen, and Thomas D. Frazel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, UK ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press

New York, : Distributed in the USA by Palgrave, c2002

ISBN

1-5261-2064-X

1-78170-035-4

1-280-73407-8

9786610734078

1-84779-062-3

1-4237-0634-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 408 pages) : digital file(s)

Altri autori (Persone)

VandiverElizabeth <1956->

KeenRalph

FrazelThomas D

Disciplina

284.1/092

B

Soggetti

Reformation - Germany

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-367) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- 1. Melanchthon and the historical Luther (Ralph Keen) -- 2. Philip Melanchthon's History of the Life and Acts of Dr Martin Luther -- 3. Johannes Cochlaeus: an introduction to his life and work (by Ralph Keen) -- 4. The deeds and writings of Martin Luther from the year of the Lord 1517 to the year 1546 related chronologically to all posterity by Johannes Cochlaeus -- Translator's note -- Appendix -- Works cited -- Notes -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume brings together two important contemporary accounts of the life of Martin Luther in a confrontation that had been postponed for more than 450 years. The first of these accounts was written after Luther's death, when it was rumoured that demons seized the reformer on his death-bed and dragged him off to Hell. In response to these



rumours, Luther's friend and colleague Philip Melanchthon wrote and published a brief encomium of the reformer in 1548. Cochlaeus consequently completed and published his monumental life of Luther in 1549.