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Deconstructing Memory Johannes Cochlaeus’s Life of Martin Luther between Polemics and “Invectivity”
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Cora Dietl
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June 8, 2023
Abstract
Johannes Cochlaeus’s Commentaria or Historia de actis et scriptis Martini Lutheri has been described as a “polemical invective.” This essay discusses the double title and the double characterization of the work and argues that its aim is to deconstruct Luther’s memory. Its effectivity derives from the combination of a polemical commentary and an invective biography. According to the Commentaria Luther’s works disgrace the author, and according to the Historia the author disqualifies his own works.
Published Online: 2023-06-08
Published in Print: 2023-04-25
© 2023 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
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Keywords for this article
Johannes Cochlaeus;
Martin Luther;
historiography;
biography;
polemics;
memory
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- Words at War: “Invectivity” in Transformative Processes of the Sixteenth Century. An Introduction
- Research Articles
- Ulrich von Hutten’s Partisanship in the Reuchlin Controversy (1514–1519): Determining Functions of “Invectivity” in Early Sixteenth-Century German Humanism
- Invectives as a Stylistic Device in Martin Luther’s Reformation Rhetoric
- Grobian Trouble: Grobianism and “Invectivity” in Thomas Murner and Martin Luther
- “Invectivity” and Theology: Martin Luther’s Ad librum Ambrosii Catharini (1521) in Context
- Deconstructing Memory Johannes Cochlaeus’s Life of Martin Luther between Polemics and “Invectivity”
- “Invectivity” and Interpretive Authority: Religious Conflict in Kilian Leib’s Annales maiores
- “zu grob gewest”: Metainvective Communication in Confessional Disputes over Narration of the Saints in the Sixteenth Century
- Winner of the REFORC Paper Award 2022
- “Nit allein den rechtglaubigen, sonder auch den irrigen: Two Sixteenth-Century German Catholic Prayer Books as Tools of Re-Catholicisation”
