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Erasmus, Man of Letters : The Construction of Charisma in Print /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Jardine, Lisa
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1993.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction: Self-Portrait in Pen and Ink
  • Ch. 1. 'A better portrait of Erasmus will his writings show': Fashioning the Figure
  • Ch. 2. The In(de)scribable Aura of the Scholar-Saint in His Study: Erasmus's Life and Letters of Saint Jerome
  • Ch. 3. Inventing Rudolph Agricola: Recovery and Transmission of the De inventione dialectica
  • Ch. 4. Recovered Manuscripts and Second Editions: Staging the Book with the Castigatores
  • Ch. 5. Reasoning Abundantly: Erasmus, Agricola, and Copia
  • Ch. 6. Concentric Circles: Confected Correspondence and the Opus epistolarum Erasmi
  • Conclusion: 'The name of Erasmus will never perish'.