The Latin Verse of Martin Luther
Texts, Translations and Commentary
Series: Bloomsbury Neo-Latin Series: Early Modern Texts and Anthologies;
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 9 January 2025
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781350261495
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages pages
- Size 216x138 mm
- Language English 678
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Long description:
Martin Luther wrote a number of Latin poems, mostly using traditional classical metres, over the course of his career. He used them to praise friends, insult adversaries and express his faith in times of distress. Up until now, Luther's Neo-Latin poetry has largely fallen through the disciplinary cracks. Literary scholars have traditionally paid more attention to the Latin verse of more celebrated humanist poets such as Petrarch. Students of the Reformation have concentrated far more often on Luther's prose and his famous German hymns than on his Latin poems. Even scholars who are familiar with Luther's Neo-Latin poetry have dismissed it as of only marginal significance.
As this book demonstrates, Luther's Latin verses are valuable cultural products that amply reward scholarly reconsideration. Springer's volume is the first to provide English translations of all of them. It also includes extensive introductions and line-by-line annotations for each of the poems, situating them within their literary traditions and contemporary contexts. As such, it enables readers to see that far from being a reformer who more or less repudiated the Classics, or someone who merely dabbled in them, Luther was a confident, even bold, Latin poet, who was serious about working out his own distinctive synthesis between Christianity and the language and literature of the ancient Romans.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: Psalmody
Chapter Three: Virgiliana
Chapter Four: Invective, Scatology and Satire
Chapter Five: Martial
Chapter Six: Inscriptions and Dedications
Chapter Seven: Faith and Life
Notes
Appendices
Bibliography
Index
