Luther's Lives: Two Contemporary Accounts of Martin Luther - Couverture rigide

Vandiver, Elizabeth; Keen, Ralph; Frazel, Thomas D.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0719061040 ISBN 13 : 9780719061042

Editeur : Manchester University Press, 2002

Synopsis

This volume brings together two important contemporary accounts of the life of Martin Luther in a confrontation that had been postponed for more than four hundred and fifty years. The first of these is written after Luther’s death, when it was rumoured that demons had seized the Reformer on his deathbed 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. A completely new translation of this text appears in this book.

It was in response to Melanchthon’s work that Johannes Cochlaeus completed and published his own monumental life of Luther in 1549, which is translated and made available in English for the first time in this volume. Such is the detail and importance of Cochlaeus’s life of Luther that for an eyewitness account of the Reformation – and the beginnings of the Catholic Counter-Reformation – there is simply no other historical document to compare.

An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.

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A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Elizabeth Vandiver is Director of the Honors Humanities Program and Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics, University of Maryland

Ralph Keen is Associate Professor of Religion, University of Iowa

Thomas D. Frazel is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Classical Studies, Tulane University

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Manchester University Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0719061040
• ISBN 13: 9780719061042
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 416
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible