Melanchthon’s Rhetorics and the Order of Learning: A Case Study in Library Database Research
Order was a leitmotif in the philosophy of Wittenberg reformer Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560). In his writings on the liberal arts, he promoted a new “order of learning” to supplant scholastic traditions in grammar, logic, and rhetoric. Partly in response to social upheavals during the Reformation,...
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2017]
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Reformation
Year: 2017, Volume: 22, Issue: 2, Pages: 120-146 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KDD Protestant Church ZF Education |
| Further subjects: | B
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B Philip Melanchthon B Reception B Rhetoric B Book History B Bibliography B Dialectic |
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| Summary: | Order was a leitmotif in the philosophy of Wittenberg reformer Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560). In his writings on the liberal arts, he promoted a new “order of learning” to supplant scholastic traditions in grammar, logic, and rhetoric. Partly in response to social upheavals during the Reformation, he changed his view of the order of learning, as illustrated by comparison of his three principal writings on rhetoric, first published in 1519, 1521, and 1531. This essay examines the binding of these rhetorics into miscellanies (Sammelbände) by compiling lists of titles included in these miscellanies and suggests that such records reveal a shift in the reading of Melanchthon's work from an approach to rhetoric focused primarily upon eloquence to one focused more exclusively upon judgement. |
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| ISSN: | 1357-4175 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Reformation
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/13574175.2017.1387969 |