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Journal article

Two Perspectives on a ‘Wrong Saint’: ‘Ein Dialogus oder Gespreche von dem absterben Friderici Staphyli’ (1564)

Authors list: Dietl, C

Publication year: 2020

Pages: 135-164

Journal: European Medieval Drama

Volume number: 24

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1484/J.EMD.5.121756

Publisher: Brepols Publishers

Abstract:

The paper presents an example of the effective use of theatrical means in the context of Reformation polemics. In 1564, an unknown Protestant author published a theatrical dialogue about the death of Friedrich Staphylus, a former Protestant, who had converted and finally became superintendent of the Catholic University of Ingolstadt. The dialogue is part of a longer dispute about Staphylus and his Counter Reformation teaching, and about the question of a proper ‘Christian death’. It uses the pattern of Lukian’s Dialogues of the Dead to claim ‘eye-witness-insight’ into the afterworld, and the possession of truth, which cannot be contradicted by those who only have a ‘worldly’ perspective.

Authors/Editors

- Uni.-Prof. Dr. Cora Beate Dietl

Citation Styles

Harvard Citation style: Dietl, C. (2020) Two Perspectives on a ‘Wrong Saint’: ‘Ein Dialogus oder Gespreche von dem absterben Friderici Staphyli’ (1564) , European Medieval Drama, 24, pp. 135-164. https://doi.org/10.1484/J.EMD.5.121756

APA Citation style: Dietl, C. (2020). Two Perspectives on a ‘Wrong Saint’: ‘Ein Dialogus oder Gespreche von dem absterben Friderici Staphyli’ (1564) . European Medieval Drama. 24, 135-164. https://doi.org/10.1484/J.EMD.5.121756