Thursday, August 4, 2022

Burn those books, but not my Scotus!

Luther's "original intention had been to include in the pyrotechnics a copy of Duns Scotus, as representative of the despised Scholastics, but none of the Wittenberg professors had been willing to sacrifice their copy of such a valuable book."

     Andrew Pettegree on the book-and-bull burning of 10 December 1520, Brand Luther:  1517, printing, and the making of the Reformation (New York:  Penguin Press, 2015),  131, citing pp. 203 and 205 of his own The book in the Renaissance (New Haven:  Yale University Press, 2010), and p. 251 of Richard Friedenthal's Luther (London:  Weidenfeld, 1967).

 

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