Cicero in Heaven

The Roman Rhetor and Luther's Reformation
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-35515-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 291 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 577 g

Reihe: St Andrews Studies in Reformation History

In Cicero in Heaven: The Roman Rhetor and Luther’s Reformation, Carl Springer traces the historical outlines of Cicero’s rhetorical legacy, paying special attention to the momentous impact that he had on Luther, his colleagues at the University of Wittenberg, and later Lutherans. While the revival of interest in Cicero’s rhetoric is more often associated with the Renaissance than with the Reformation, it would be a mistake to overlook the important role that Luther and other reformers played in securing Cicero’s place in the curricula of schools in modern Europe (and America). Luther’s attitude towards Cicero was complex, and the final chapter of the book discusses negative reactions to Cicero in the Reformation and the centuries that followed.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Springer, Carl P E

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Prolegomena
List of Abbreviations

1 Cicero and Christian Latin Eloquence
1 Non Hominis Nomen Sed Eloquentiae
2 “Spoiling The Egyptians”
3 Renaissance Humanism
4 Reformation Latin

2 “The Real German Cicero”
1 “I Love Cicero”
2 Optimus Philosophus
3 Parrhesiastics

3 Cicero and Wittenberg Education
1 Humanist Educationand Cicero
2 Luther’s Latin House of Learning
3 Praeceptor Germaniae

4 “Cicero Refused to Die”
1 Johann Sturm and The Ratio Studiorum
2 The Teacher of Modern Europe
3 Bach, the Latin Teacher
4 Cicero, Illinois

5 Lutheranism and anti-Ciceronianism
1 The Vernacular Reformation
2 “One word of Paul’s likely has three ciceronian orations in it”
3 Anti-Ciceronianism, Flacius, and Bengel
4 Cicero in Hell
5 Cicero Americanus and the American Adam

Epilogue
Works Cited

Über Autor(innen)

Carl P.E. Springer, Ph.D. (1984, University of Wisconsin-Madison) is SunTrust Chair of Excellence in the Humanities at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga. He has written extensively on the relationship between Martin Luther and the Classics, including Luther’s Aesop (Kirksville, 2011).