1624) (Fundamentalismus und Intertextualität im lutherischen Schuldrama – die Eusebia Magdeburgensis von Johannes Blocius (1624)

What is it about?

Johannes Blocius’s Jubilee drama Eusebia Magdeburgensis was performed by the Latin School pupils in 1624 to mark the centenary of the city’s Reformation. Historically attested Lutheran theologians and aldermen figure in the play as embodied exempla for religious faithfulness and willingness to self-sacrifice. This essay demonstrates how Blocius translated into Latin his pre-texts: vernacular flyers and historical sources from Reformation era Magdeburg. Referring to Nicodemus Frischlinʼs Phasma, Blocius skillfully inserted a citation from Plautus, by which he thwarted the orthodox reading of the Eusebia.

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