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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781112403321

Autore

Bietenholz Peter G.

Titolo

Encounters with a radical Erasmus : Erasmus' work as a source of radical thought in Early modern Europe / / Peter G. Bietenholz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2009

©2009

ISBN

1-4426-9317-7

1-4426-8799-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (333 p.)

Collana

Erasmus studies

Disciplina

303.48/4094

Soggetti

Radicalism - Europe - History - 16th century

Radicalism - Europe - History - 17th century

Authors and readers - Europe - History - 16th century

Authors and readers - Europe - History - 17th century

History

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Europe

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Sebastian Franck scrutinizes Erasmus' Annotationes to the New Testament -- Mining antitrinitarian ore from Erasmus' New Testament -- Peace and war according to Erasmus' New Testment -- The Castello circle : religious toleration and radical reasoning -- Erasmus, his mistress folly, and the garden of Epicurus -- Doctoring the truth : Cardano's Erasmian physic for the Libertins -- Epicureanism, scepticism, and libertinage in early modern France -- Radical echoes of Erasmus in seventeenth-century England -- The taste of Erasmian spice in some classics of early modern literature -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

An engaging look at Erasmus' theological, philosophical and socio-political influence, Encounters with a Radical Erasmus will prove useful to scholars of humanism, theology, the Reformation and Renaissance.