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Homer in Wittenberg: Rhetoric, Scholarship, Prayer: Classical Presences

Autor William P. Weaver
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 17 noi 2022
Homer in Wittenberg draws on manuscript and printed materials to demonstrate Homer's foundational significance for educational and theological reform during the Reformation in Wittenberg. In the first study of Melanchthon's Homer annotations from three different periods spanning his career, and the first book-length study of his reading of a classical author, William Weaver offers a new perspective on the liberal arts and textual authority in the Renaissance and Reformation. Melanchthon's significance in the teaching of the liberal arts has long been recognized, but Homer's prominent place in his educational reforms is not widely known. Homer was instrumental in Melanchthon's attempt to transform the university curriculum, and his reforms of the liberal arts are clarified by his engagements with Homeric speech, a subject of interest in recent Homer scholarship. Beginning with his Greek grammar published just as he arrived in Wittenberg in 1518, and proceeding through his 1547 work on dialectic, Homer in Wittenberg shows that teaching Homer decisively shaped Melanchthon's redesign of grammar, logic, and rhetoric. Melanchthon embarked on reforming the liberal arts with the ultimate objective of reforming theological education. His teaching of Homer illustrates the philosophical principles behind his use of well-known theological terms including sola scriptura, law and gospel, and loci communes. Homer's significance extended even to a practical theology of prayer, and Wittenberg scholia on Homer from the 1550s illustrate how the Homeric poem could be used to exercise faith as well as literary judgment and eloquence.
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ISBN-13: 9780192864154
ISBN-10: 0192864157
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 163 x 241 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Seria Classical Presences

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Recenzii

In this excellent and exciting study of the reception of Homer in sixteenth-century Wittenberg, William P. Weaver shows how central the ancient poet was to the education and theological climate that emerged in this Protestant stronghold in the wake of Martin Luther's critique of the Church.
The author contributes to claiming Melanchthon's rightful place in the history of classical scholarship, where early modern achievements are often poorly explored, in particular for the Greek heritage.

Notă biografică

William P. Weaver is Professor of Literature in the Honors College at Baylor University. He received his PhD in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. From 2015 to 2018 he was a Humboldt Fellow. He co-edited an edition of Philip Melanchthon's writings on rhetoric (De Gruyter, 2017), and is the author of numerous articles on rhetoric, poetry, and the classical tradition in the Renaissance.