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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jardine, Lisa (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford [England] : Princeton University Press, 2015.
Edition:New paperback printing with a new preface by the author.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Erasmus, Desiderius, > -1536
Erasmus, Desiderius, > -1536 > Authorship.
Scholarly publishing.
Printing.
Intellectual life.
Humanists.
Authorship.
Authors, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Authors and publishers.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Religious.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Latin.
Imprimerie > Pays-Bas > Histoire > 16e siecle.
Édition savante > Pays-Bas > Histoire > 16e siecle.
Humanistes > Pays-Bas.
Art d'ecrire > Histoire > 16e siecle.
Écrivains et editeurs > Pays-Bas > Histoire > 16e siecle.
Écrivains latins medievaux et modernes > Pays-Bas > Biographies.
Printing > Netherlands > History > 16th century.
Scholarly publishing > Netherlands > History > 16th century.
Humanists > Netherlands.
Authorship > History > 16th century.
Authors and publishers > Netherlands > History > 16th century.
Authors, Latin (Medieval and modern) > Netherlands > Biography.
Netherlands.
Pays-Bas > Vie intellectuelle > 16e siecle.
Netherlands > Intellectual life > 16th century.
History.
Biographies.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface to the new paperback edition
  • Introduction: Self-portrait in pen and ink
  • Better portrait of Erasmus will his writings show: fashioning the figure
  • In(de)scribable Aura of the Scholar-Saint in his study: Erasmus's Life and Letters of Saint Jerome
  • Inventing Rudolph Agricola: recovery and transmission of the De invention dialectica
  • Recovered manuscripts and second editions: staging the book with the Castigatores
  • Reasoning abundantly: Erasmus, Agricola, and Copia
  • Concentric circles: confected correspondence and the Opus epistolarum Erasmi
  • Conclusion: The name of Erasmus will never perish.

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