Erasmus, Man of Letters

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  • Erasmus, Man of Letters Book Detail

  • Author : Lisa Jardine
  • Release Date : 2015-06-23
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Genre : Biography & Autobiography
  • Pages : 301
  • ISBN 13 : 1400866170
  • File Size : 68,68 MB

Erasmus, Man of Letters by Lisa Jardine PDF Summary

Book Description: The name Erasmus of Rotterdam conjures up a golden age of scholarly integrity and the disinterested pursuit of knowledge, when learning could command public admiration without the need for authorial self-promotion. Lisa Jardine, however, shows that Erasmus self-consciously created his own reputation as the central figure of the European intellectual world. Erasmus himself—the historical as opposed to the figural individual—was a brilliant, maverick innovator, who achieved little formal academic recognition in his own lifetime. What Jardine offers here is not only a fascinating study of Erasmus but also a bold account of a key moment in Western history, a time when it first became possible to believe in the existence of something that could be designated "European thought."

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Erasmus, Man of Letters

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The name Erasmus of Rotterdam conjures up a golden age of scholarly integrity. However, as Lisa Jardine portrays him, Erasmus self-consciously created his own r

The Correspondence of Erasmus

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This volume includes Erasmus’ correspondence for the months April 1532 to April 1533, a period in which he feared a religious civil war in Germany. In his des

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Although most of the letters from this period are familiar letters to friends or formal dedications to prospective patrons, there are occasional glimpses into t