Melanchthon, Philip | Åke Bergvall (essay date 1994)
Åke Bergvall (essay date 1994)
SOURCE: Bergvall, Åke. “Melanchthon and Tudor England.” In Cultural Exchange between European Nations during the Renaissance, edited by Gunnar Sorelius and Michael Srigley, pp. 85-93. Stockholm: Uppsala University, 1994.
[In this excerpt, Bergvall highlights Melanchthon's status as a literary presence in England during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries.]
Edward Denny in 1580 asked his younger friend Philip Sidney to suggest a recommended program of studies. In his written reply Sidney placed great emphasis on the study of history and proposed that Denny read a broad range of works, from the Greek and Roman classics to European chronicles. Denny's first choice, however, Sidney intimated, should not be Herodotos or Livy but a near contemporary: “You shoold begin with Phillip Melanthons Chronology.”1 Melanchthon's Chronicon was an appropriate beginning, since in...
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