Luther's Aesop / / Carl P. E. Springer.
Reformer of the church, biblical theologian, and German translator of the Bible Martin Luther had the highest respect for stories attributed to the ancient Greek author Aesop. He assigned them a status second only to the Bible and regarded them as wiser than ";the harmful opinions of all the ph...
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early Modern Studies ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- 1. Wittenberg and Athens
- 2. "The Best after the Bible"
- 3. Luther the Editor
- 4. A Lutheran Fable Book
- 5. Luther as Aesop
- Appendix A. Other Versions of the Coburg Fables
- Appendix B. Selected Latin Poems of Luther
- Appendix C. Varia
- Works Cited
- About the Author
- Index
- Index of Scriptural References