By Asaph Ben-Tov
The textual monuments of Greco-Roman antiquity, as is celebrated, have been a staple of Europe s trained sessions because the Renaissance. That the Reformation ushered in a brand new knowing of human destiny and heritage is both a regular of recent scholarship. the current research probes attitudes in the direction of Greek antiquity by way of of a gaggle of Lutheran humanists. targeting Philipp Melanchthon, a number of of his colleagues and scholars, and a broader Melanchthonian milieu, a Lutheran knowing of Pagan and Christian Greek antiquity is traced in its 16th century context, positing it in the framework of Protestant common background, pedagogical matters, and the newly made acquaintance with Byzantine texts and post-Byzantine Greeks demonstrating the necessity to historicize Antiquity itself in Renaissance reports and beyond."
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