Description |
1 online resource (x, 284 pages) : illustrations, map |
Series |
Princeton legacy library |
Contents |
Introduction: Self-Portrait in Pen and Ink -- Ch. 1. 'A better portrait of Erasmus will his writings show': Fashioning the Figure -- Ch. 2. The In(de)scribable Aura of the Scholar-Saint in His Study: Erasmus's Life and Letters of Saint Jerome -- Ch. 3. Inventing Rudolph Agricola: Recovery and Transmission of the De inventione dialectica -- Ch. 4. Recovered Manuscripts and Second Editions: Staging the Book with the Castigatores -- Ch. 5. Reasoning Abundantly: Erasmus, Agricola, and Copia -- Ch. 6. Concentric Circles: Confected Correspondence and the Opus epistolarum Erasmi -- Conclusion: 'The name of Erasmus will never perish' |
Summary |
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 Erasmu |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-278) and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
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Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536 -- Authorship
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SUBJECT |
Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536 -- Authorship
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Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536 fast |
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Érasme, (1469-1536) ram |
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Authors, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Netherlands -- Biography
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Authors and publishers -- Netherlands -- History -- 16th century
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Scholarly publishing -- Netherlands -- History -- 16th century
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Printing -- Netherlands -- History -- 16th century
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Authorship -- History -- 16th century
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Humanists -- Netherlands
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Latin.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Religious.
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Authors and publishers
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Authors, Latin (Medieval and modern)
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Authorship
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Humanists
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Intellectual life
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Printing
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Scholarly publishing
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Geleerdheid.
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Humanisme (cultuurgeschiedenis)
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Uitgeven.
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Imprimeurs -- Pays-Bas -- Histoire -- 16e siècle.
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Humanistes -- Pays-Bas.
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Netherlands -- Intellectual life -- 16th century
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Netherlands
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Pays-Bas -- Vie intellectuelle -- 16e siècle.
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Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780691606811 |
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0691606811 |
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9781400863259 |
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1400863252 |
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