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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.
Price: $173.00
Pages: 291
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: St Andrews Studies in Reformation History
Publication Date:
12 October 2017
ISBN: 9789004355156
Format: Hardcover
“Finely tuned and sensitively presented insights like those in the author’s treatment of rhetorical elements in church music appear throughout the book. Its elegant prose is eminently readable; the wide variety of tidbits of information offered is pleasantly surprising as well as entertaining. As far as Luther is concerned, the book also dazzles with a copious selection of quotations which will be useful for the future researcher. The educated public as well as the specialist reader will find enlightenment and entertainment in this book.”
Johann Ramminger, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2018.07.03.
“learned and engaging”
Neal Leroux, University of Minnesota. In: Lutheran Quarterly, Vol. 33, No. 2 (Summer 2019), pp. 231-233.
Johann Ramminger, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2018.07.03.
“learned and engaging”
Neal Leroux, University of Minnesota. In: Lutheran Quarterly, Vol. 33, No. 2 (Summer 2019), pp. 231-233.
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).