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9780719068027

Luther's Lives Two Contemporary Accounts of Martin Luther

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  • ISBN13:

    9780719068027

  • ISBN10:

    0719068029

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-12-25
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press

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Summary

This volume brings together two important contemporary accounts of the life of Martin Luther in a confrontation that had been postponed for more than 450 years. The first of these accounts was 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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Scholars vi
Abbreviations vii
Introduction 1(6)
1 Philip Melanchthon and the historical Luther by Ralph Keen 7(7)
2 Philip Melanchthon's History of the Life and Acts of Dr Martin Luther translated by Thomas D. Frazel and annotated by Ralph Keen 14(26)
3 Johannes Cochlaeus: an introduction to his life and work by Ralph Keen 40(13)
4 The deeds and writings of Dr Martin Luther from the year of the Lord 1517 to the year 1546 related chronologically to all posterity by Johannes Cochlaeus for the first time translated into English by Elizabeth Vandiver and annotated by Ralph Keen 53(299)
Translator's note 352(1)
Appendix 353(4)
Works cited 357(11)
Notes 368(34)
Index 402

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