Erasmus, Man of Letters : : The Construction of Charisma in Print - Updated Edition / / Lisa Jardine.
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...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2015 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Edition: | Updated edition with a New preface by the author |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 28 halftones. |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface to the New Paperback Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION. Self-Portrait in Pen and Ink -- CHAPTER ONE. 'A better portrait of Erasmus will his writings show': Fashioning the Figure -- CHAPTER TWO. The In(de)scribable Aura of the Scholar-Saint in His Study: Erasmus's Life and Letters of Saint Jerome -- CHAPTER THREE. Inventing Rudolph Agricola: Recovery and Transmission of the De inventione dialectica -- CHAPTER FOUR. Recovered Manuscripts and Second Editions: Staging the Book with the Castigatores -- CHAPTER FIVE. Reasoning Abundantly: Erasmus, Agricola, and Copia -- CHAPTER SIX. Concentric Circles: Confected Correspondence and the Opus epistolarum Erasmi -- CONCLUSION. 'The name of Erasmus will never perish' -- Appendices -- Notes -- Index |
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Summary: | 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." |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781400866175 9783110439687 9783110438680 9783110665925 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9781400866175 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Lisa Jardine. |