Homer in Wittenberg
Rhetoric, Scholarship, Prayer
Seiten
2022
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-286415-4 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-286415-4 (ISBN)
Homer in Wittenberg discusses Homer's foundational significance for educational and theological reform during the Protestant Reformation. William P. Weaver provides a close examiantion of Melanchthon's use of Homer in his education reforms.
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.
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.
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.
Introduction
1: Homeric Grammar: Philip's Institutiones Graecae Grammaticae (1518)
2: Homeric Eloquence: Philip's 1518 Lectures on the Epistle to Titus and the iliad
3: Homeric Prudence: Melanchthon's 1523 Homer Lectures
4: The Homeric Poem
5: The Wittenberg Scholia
6: Rightly Dividing the Word
Epilogue
| Erscheinungsdatum | 18.11.2022 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Classical Presences |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 163 x 241 mm |
| Gewicht | 524 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-286415-7 / 0192864157 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-286415-4 / 9780192864154 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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