Medievalists.net » Luther http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 19:35:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Quiz: Martin Luther And The Protestant Reformation http://www.medievalists.net/2015/05/30/quiz-martin-luther-and-the-protestant-reformation/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/05/30/quiz-martin-luther-and-the-protestant-reformation/#comments Sat, 30 May 2015 16:55:44 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=58551 Ten questions to see your knowledge of this time period where beliefs and faith in the Christian church changed dramatically.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/05/30/quiz-martin-luther-and-the-protestant-reformation/feed/ 0 Shadow of the Sword (The Headsman) http://www.medievalists.net/2015/05/21/shadow-of-the-sword-the-headsman/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/05/21/shadow-of-the-sword-the-headsman/#comments Thu, 21 May 2015 16:38:17 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=58331 Nikolaj Coster-Waldau gives us a sympathetic Headsman in Reformation Austria, in the 'Shadow of the Sword (The Headsman)'.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/05/21/shadow-of-the-sword-the-headsman/feed/ 0 Does a Reformation End?: Rethinking Religious Simulation in Sixteenth-Century Italy http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/21/reformation-end-rethinking-religious-simulation-sixteenth-century-italy/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/21/reformation-end-rethinking-religious-simulation-sixteenth-century-italy/#comments Tue, 21 Oct 2014 13:08:10 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=53493 A paper examining the Italian Reformation.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/21/reformation-end-rethinking-religious-simulation-sixteenth-century-italy/feed/ 0 The Dragon and the Storm The Saracen anti-knight in Orlando furioso and Gerusalemme liberata http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/02/the-dragon-and-the-storm-the-saracen-anti-knight-in-orlando-furioso-and-gerusalemme-liberata/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/02/the-dragon-and-the-storm-the-saracen-anti-knight-in-orlando-furioso-and-gerusalemme-liberata/#comments Fri, 02 Aug 2013 15:30:44 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=42565 The Dragon and the Storm The Saracen anti-knight in Orlando furioso and Gerusalemme liberata  Cam Lindley Cross University of Chicago, March 8 (2011) Abstract When Peter the Venerable commissioned Robert of Ketton to translate the Qur’an in 1142 CE, under the title Lex Mahumet pseudoprophete, it was with done for the express purpose of refuting Islamic doctrine […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/02/the-dragon-and-the-storm-the-saracen-anti-knight-in-orlando-furioso-and-gerusalemme-liberata/feed/ 0 ‘Cast out into the hellish night’: Pagan Virtue and Pagan Poetics in Lorenzo Valla’s De voluptate http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/19/cast-out-into-the-hellish-night-pagan-virtue-and-pagan-poetics-in-lorenzo-vallas-de-voluptate/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/19/cast-out-into-the-hellish-night-pagan-virtue-and-pagan-poetics-in-lorenzo-vallas-de-voluptate/#comments Fri, 19 Jul 2013 19:21:13 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=42230 Valla wrote about Epicureanism before the Renaissance rediscovery of classical Epicurean texts. Poggio Bracciolini had not yet circulated his newly-discovered manuscript of first century Epicurean philosopher Lucretius’ De rerum natura, and Valla wrote without access to Diogenes Laertius’ Lives of the Philosophers, which discussed Epicurus’ teachings in greater detail.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/19/cast-out-into-the-hellish-night-pagan-virtue-and-pagan-poetics-in-lorenzo-vallas-de-voluptate/feed/ 0 Historical Thought and the Reform Crisis of the Early Sixteenth Century http://www.medievalists.net/2013/02/19/historical-thought-and-the-reform-crisis-of-the-early-sixteenth-century/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/02/19/historical-thought-and-the-reform-crisis-of-the-early-sixteenth-century/#comments Wed, 20 Feb 2013 01:46:49 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=39337 I shall follow what I feel to be the methodologically sound procedure of examining one case in some detail, while at the same time producing evidence to suggest that elements which are operative in this instance may be operative in others as well. What I should like to focus attention upon are certain ideas of history which were current in the early sixteenth century.


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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/02/19/historical-thought-and-the-reform-crisis-of-the-early-sixteenth-century/feed/ 0 The Doctrine of Active Resistance in the Sixteenth Century http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/18/the-doctrine-of-active-resistance-in-the-sixteenth-century/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/18/the-doctrine-of-active-resistance-in-the-sixteenth-century/#comments Sun, 18 Nov 2012 18:40:00 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=37233 This article will explore the late medieval sources and the sixteenth century context of Continental Reformation theologians’ response to that agony of conscience.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/18/the-doctrine-of-active-resistance-in-the-sixteenth-century/feed/ 0 Does Michelangelo’s poetic veil shroud a secret Luther? http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/28/does-michelangelos-poetic-veil-shroud-a-secret-luther/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/28/does-michelangelos-poetic-veil-shroud-a-secret-luther/#comments Tue, 28 Aug 2012 06:58:52 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=35189 The thesis poses a question derived from an unlikely nexus of two prominent figures of the Renaissance and the Reformation: the artist whose creative abilities ostensibly dominate the Vatican and religious art, juxtaposed with the rebel who splintered the dominance of Roman Catholicism.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/28/does-michelangelos-poetic-veil-shroud-a-secret-luther/feed/ 0 German Hercules: The Impact of Scatology on the Definition of Martin Luther as a Man 1483-1546 http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/06/german-hercules-the-impact-of-scatology-on-the-definition-of-martin-luther-as-a-man-1483-1546/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/06/german-hercules-the-impact-of-scatology-on-the-definition-of-martin-luther-as-a-man-1483-1546/#comments Wed, 06 Jun 2012 15:24:25 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=32476 Martin Luther’s employment of vulgarity, and specifically scatological vulgarity, in his writings and speech has drawn criticism, embarrassment, and accusations of psychological instability.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/06/german-hercules-the-impact-of-scatology-on-the-definition-of-martin-luther-as-a-man-1483-1546/feed/ 0 The German Reformation and Medieval Thought and Culture http://www.medievalists.net/2012/02/09/the-german-reformation-and-medieval-thought-and-culture/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/02/09/the-german-reformation-and-medieval-thought-and-culture/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:55:05 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=29142 After Luther’s death in 1546, it was said, the seeds mostly fell dormant in Germany, where leaders failed to rally around the philosophical core of Luther’s message, retreating into political division and older authoritarian patterns of thought.

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