Erasmus, man of letters : the construction of charisma in print / / Lisa Jardine with a new preface by the author

• Autore: Jardine Lisa
• Pubblicazione: Princeton, New Jersey ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Princeton University Press, , 2015; ©1993
• Edizione: Updated edition with a New preface by the author
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (301 p.)
• Disciplina: 878.0409
• Soggetto topico: Authors, Latin (Medieval and modern) - Netherlands; Authors and publishers - Netherlands - History - 16th century; Authorship - History - 16th century; Humanists - Netherlands
• Soggetto geografico: Netherlands Intellectual life 16th century; Netherlands
• Altri autori: JardineLisa
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface to the New Paperback Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION. Self-Portrait in Pen and Ink -- CHAPTER ONE. 'A better portrait of Erasmus will his writings show': Fashioning the Figure -- CHAPTER TWO. The In(de)scribable Aura of the Scholar-Saint in His Study: Erasmus's Life and Letters of Saint Jerome -- CHAPTER THREE. Inventing Rudolph Agricola: Recovery and Transmission of the De inventione dialectica -- CHAPTER FOUR. Recovered Manuscripts and Second Editions: Staging the Book with the Castigatores -- CHAPTER FIVE. Reasoning Abundantly: Erasmus, Agricola, and Copia -- CHAPTER SIX. Concentric Circles: Confected Correspondence and the Opus epistolarum Erasmi -- CONCLUSION. 'The name of Erasmus will never perish' -- Appendices -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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."
• Titolo autorizzato: Erasmus, man of letters
• ISBN: 1-4008-6617-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910788173203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II