Renaissance Monks - Paperback

by Franz Posset (Author)

This volume deals with the intellectual world of ""progressive"" Benedictine and Cistercian monks who vicariously represent humanists in cloisters (Klosterhumanismus, Bibelhumanismus) in German speaking lands: Conradus Leontorius (1460-1511), Maulbronn, Benedictus Chelidonius (c. 1460-1521), Nuremberg and Vienna, Bolfgangus Marius (1469-1544), Aldersbach in Bavaria, Henricus Urbanus (c. 1470-c. 1539), Georgenthal in the region of Gotha and Erfurt, Vitus Bild Acropolitanus (1481-1529), Augsburg, Nikolaus Ellenbog (1481-1543), of Ottobeuren. For the first time in historical-theological research, new insights are provided into the world of the ""social group"" called Monastic Humanists who emerged next to the better known Civic Humanists within the diverse, international phenomenon of Renaissance humanism.

Author Biography

Dr. Franz Posset accepting the Davidias Prize of the Association of Croatian Writers in 2014 in Split, Croatia, for his book, Marcus Marulus and the Biblia Latina of 1489. Most recently, in 2016 he received the Koenig Prize in Biography of the American Catholic Historical Association for his book, Johann Reuchlin (1455-1522): A Theological Biography.