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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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