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Luther's Lives: Two contemporary accounts of Martin Luther

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We have only two substantial eyewitness accounts of the life of Martin Luther. Best known is a 9,000-word Latin memoir by Philip Melanchthon published in Latin at Heidelberg in 1548, two years after the Reformer’s death.1 In 1561, ‘Henry Bennet, Callesian’ translated this pamphlet into English; the martyrologist John Foxe adopted Bennet’s text into his Memorials verbatim, including a number of the Englisher’s mistranslations. For example, where Melanchthon wrote that Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg ‘pridie festi omnium Sanctorum’ – that is, ‘on the day before the feast of All Saints’ (31 October 1517) – Bennet mistranslated pridie as ‘after’ and wrote, ‘the morrowe after the feast of all Saynctes, the year. 1517.’ 2 Since every English church was obliged to own a copy of Foxe, Elizabethans – including William Shakespeare – believed Luther’s Reformation began on 2 November. The present volume corrects this and other Bennet/Foxe errors, and provides an authoritative English edition of Melanchthon’s Historia de Vita et Actis Reverendiss. Viri D. Mart. Lutheri, the first new translation in English to appear in print in many years...

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United States of America : Manchester Univeristy Press., 2002

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412 p.

Bahasa

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0 7190 6104 0

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NONE

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text

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electronic

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online resource

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Protestanism
Lutheran
Protestanism & protestant church
luther

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