Towards Confessional Reconciliation: The "Protestantization" of Charles V in David Chytraeus's De Carolo Quinto Caesare Augusto Oratio (1583)
In 1583, David Chytraeus (1530-1600), one of the key figures of north German Protestant humanism, published his Latin biographical oration De Carolo Quinto Caesare Augusto Oratio on Emperor Charles V (Holy Roman emperor from 1520 to 1556). Despite the numerous confessional conflicts between the Germ...
| Published in: | Renaissance and reformation |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Iter Press
[2020]
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| In: |
Renaissance and reformation
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| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture CG Christianity and Politics KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KBB German language area KDD Protestant Church |
| Further subjects: | B
Chytraeus, David, 1531-1600
B Protestants B KINGS & rulers B Theologians B Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500-1558 |
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (doi) |
| Summary: | In 1583, David Chytraeus (1530-1600), one of the key figures of north German Protestant humanism, published his Latin biographical oration De Carolo Quinto Caesare Augusto Oratio on Emperor Charles V (Holy Roman emperor from 1520 to 1556). Despite the numerous confessional conflicts between the German Protestants and the former Catholic monarch, Chytraeus presented the emperor in a strikingly favourable light. To which degree and in which respects Chytraeus was thereby driven both as a theologian and as a historian to promote the overcoming of the confessional split--which renders the oration on Charles an intriguing document of sixteenth-century religious discourse--will be investigated in this article. |
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| ISSN: | 2293-7374 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Renaissance and reformation
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.33137/rr.v43i3.35302 |