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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463525003321

Autore

Vance Jacob

Titolo

Secrets : humanism, mysticism, and evangelism in Erasmus of Rotterdam, Bishop Guillaume Briconnet, and Marguerite De Navarre / / Jacob Vance

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

90-04-28125-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (190 p.)

Collana

Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, , 0920-8607 ; ; Volume 231

Disciplina

274/.06

Soggetti

Christianity and religious humanism

Secrecy - Religious aspects - Christianity

Evangelicalism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Secrets in Humanist, Mystical, and Evangelical Literature -- 1 Secrets between Philosophy, Biblical Interpretation, and Literature: Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466/9–1536) -- 2 Mysticism and Aesthetics in French Evangelical Humanism (1450–1536) -- 3 Mystical and Courtly Secrets: Marguerite de Navarre (1492–1549) -- 4 Evangelical Secrecy and Courtly News: The Heptameron (1559) -- Conclusion: Secrecy and Covers between Literature, Philosophy, and Theology -- Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Works -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

In Secrets: Humanism, Mysticism, and Evangelism in Erasmus of Rotterdam, Bishop Guillaume Briçonnet, and Marguerite de Navarre , Jacob Vance argues that Erasmus and French Evangelical humanists made secrecy central to their literary thought. They revived Scriptural, medieval, and early Renaissance notions of secrecy in their spiritual and profane literature to advance the reforms in church and society that they advocated. Erasmus, Briçonnet, and Marguerite expanded on Origenian, Augustinian, and pseudo-Dionysian concepts of divine mystery, as being secret, throughout their works. By developing the



idea that the divine remains both transcendent and immanent in the world of creation, these humanists explored, through literature, how the human spirit can either accede, or fail to accede, to the secrets of Christian wisdom.