Erasmus, Man of Letters : The Construction of Charisma in Print - Updated Edition

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Label

Erasmus, Man of Letters : The Construction of Charisma in Print - Updated Edition

Title remainder

The Construction of Charisma in Print - Updated Edition

Creator

• Jardine, Lisa

Contributor

• Jardine, Lisa

Subject

• Electronic resources
• Erasmus, Desiderius, -- -1536 -- Authorship.;Authors, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Netherlands -- Biography.;Authors and publishers -- Netherlands -- History -- 16th century.;Authorship -- History -- 16th century.;Humanists -- Netherlands

Language

eng

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."

Cataloging source

MiAaPQ

LC call number

PA8518 -- .J373 2015eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries