For the first time, this volume documents Melanchthon’s lasting influence on the countries in Western Europe and even in the United States of America. Unlike the countries dominated by Lutheranism, in which traces of Melanchthon can be seen more clearly in church history and in university education and confessionalization, his influence on the countries in which Romance languages are spoken and in English-speaking countries can be discovered mainly in the exceedingly intensive examination of his scholarly commentaries. The articles in this conference volume prove and expand the theory propounded in the first volume of the set, ›Scandinavia and Central and Eastern Europe‹, that an appraisal of the »Praeceptor Germaniae« is only appropriate from the perspective of all of Europe.weiterlesen