Martin Luthers Fabeln und Sprichwörter

Title

en_US Martin Luthers Fabeln und Sprichwörter

en_US Insel Taschenbuch 1094

Description

en_US Language note: German

en_US Apparent first printing

en_US Mit Einleitung und Kommentar, herausgegeben von Reinhard Dithmar

Creator

en_US Dithmar, Reinhard See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T19:49:11Z

en_US 2005-12

en_US 1989

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:49:11Z

Date Issued

en_US 1989

Abstract

en_US This is a fine Insel paperback. Dithmar lays out important texts in careful fashion, starting from Luther's thirteen fables of 1530 and their antecedents in Steinhöwel's Liber Primus. I take Dithmar's thesis to be that many commentators pounce on these thirteen fables as though they were Luther's word on the subject. Dithmar says rather that fable was important to Luther's thinking at a very basic level throughout his life. Dithmar goes on to present Luther's old-testament fables and then a set of fables labeled simply Luthers Fabeln. These seem to be individual stories for individual purposes; that is, Luther created them for individual literary creations. Such is, e.g., Vom Reichstag der Dohlen und Krähen, which Dithmar subtitles Luthers Brief an die Wittenberger Tischgesellen. New to me here, among Steinhöwel's woodcuts, is the image of Papstesel (87), an ass that incorporates in a rather voluptuous body the features of many different animals. There follow sections Aus Luthers Tischreden (119) and Luthers Theorie und Urteile über die Fabel (155). Next we find the collection of Luther's proverbs; these are of course all over whatever of his writings I have seen, including the fables. Dithmar does very good work, as far as I have checked, in the fifty-page section on sources and commentary. What a rich little volume!

Identifier

en_US 3458327940

en_US 5746 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81247

Language

en_US ger

Publisher

en_US Insel Verlag

en_US Frankfurt am Main

Subject

en_US BR332.S8 1989 See all items with this value

en_US Luther See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole