Towards Confessional Reconciliation
The “Protestantization” of Charles V in David Chytraeus’s De Carolo Quinto Caesare Augusto Oratio (1583)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16348648 |
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| Authors | Isabella Walser-Bürgler (0000-0001-5926-7891, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital Health and Prevention, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 71-104 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-21 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Renaissance and Reformation (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-429X • E-ISSN: 2293-7374 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Libraries - UOTL (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.33137/rr.v43i3.35302 |
| OpenAlex | W3116819732 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
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
Ancient history · Art · Confessional · Emperor · German · Humanism · Humanities · Political science · Politics · Protestantism · Theology · Classics · Historical Influence and Diplomacy · History · Law · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Religious studies · Religious Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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