{"product_id":"9781350261501","title":"Latin Verse of Martin Luther Texts, Translations and Commentary","description":"\u003ch3\u003eBloomsbury Neo-Latin Series: Early Modern Texts and Anthologies\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eLatin Verse of Martin Luther\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eTexts, Translations and Commentary\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eCarl P. E. Springer | Gesine Manuwald | Stephen Harrison | William M. Barton | Bobby Xinyue\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eForeign Language Study \/ Latin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMartin Luther wrote a number of Latin poems, mostly using traditional classical metres, over the course of his career. He used them to praise friends, insult adversaries and express his faith in times of distress.\u003c\/b\u003e Up until now, Luther's Neo-Latin poetry has largely fallen through the disciplinary cracks. Literary scholars have traditionally paid more attention to the Latin verse of more celebrated humanist poets such as Petrarch. Students of the Reformation have concentrated far more often on Luther's prose and his famous German hymns than on his Latin poems. Even scholars who are familiar with Luther's Neo-Latin poetry have dismissed it as of only marginal significance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As this book demonstrates, Luther's Latin verses are valuable cultural products that amply reward scholarly reconsideration. Springer's volume is the first to provide English translations of all of them. It also includes extensive introductions and line-by-line annotations for each of the poems, situating them within their literary traditions and contemporary contexts. As such, it enables readers to see that far from being a reformer who more or less repudiated the Classics, or someone who merely dabbled in them, Luther was a confident, even bold, Latin poet, who was serious about working out his own distinctive synthesis between Christianity and the language and literature of the ancient Romans.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eCarl P. E. Springer\u003c\/b\u003e is SunTrust Chair of Excellence in the Humanities and Professor in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, USA. He is author of \u003ci\u003eLuther's Rome\/Rome's Luther\u003c\/i\u003e (2021), \u003ci\u003eCicero in Heaven\u003c\/i\u003e (2017) and \u003ci\u003eLuther's \u003c\/i\u003eAesop (2011).\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e23 July 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781350261501\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback \/ softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e240\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16.0\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51223575068812,"sku":"9781350261501","price":35.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_e60ed524-d412-48af-8e2d-539fb8427bf6.jpg?v=1783077590","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781350261501","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}