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

Overview: 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...

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Auteur principal: Jardine, Lisa (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Oxford [England] : Princeton University Press, 2015.
Édition:New paperback printing with a new preface by the author.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:Overview: 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."--
Description matérielle:1 online resource (304 pages): illustrations, map.
ISBN:9781400866175