Magdeburg, 1554: Flacius Illyricus Applies for a Grant
UCLA Royce Hall - Room 314 10745 Dickson Ct, Los AngelesA lecture by Professor Anthony Grafton (Princeton University). Ecclesiastical history began in the 1550s, when the Lutheran Matthias Flacius Illyricus organized a collaborative century-by-century history of Christianity. This confessional project never reached completion, and its thick volumes met with severe criticism from co-religionists as well as Catholics. Nonetheless, it provided a new model for the study of […]
