Philip Melanchthon: The Dialectical Questions: Erotemata Dialectices

by Jeanne Fahnestock, University of Maryland, Translation and Introduction by Jeanne Fahnestock

The Dialectical Questions offers an English translation of the Erotemata Dialectices, the final and fullest textbook on the art of argumentation written by the reformer and educational innovator Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560). Representing an era when rhetoric and dialectic were seen as interdependent, companion arts, Melanchthon's textbook was widely used in Protestant Latin schools and universities during the Reformation. The translation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004466371
• ISBN13: 9789004466371
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 560 Pages