Erasmus, Man of Letters : : The Construction of Charisma in Print - Updated Edition / / Lisa Jardine.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2015
• VerfasserIn: Jardine, Lisa,
• TeilnehmendeR: Jardine, Lisa.
• 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
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 28 halftones.

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."

Table of Contents

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