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Author Jardine, Lisa

Title Erasmus, man of letters : the construction of charisma in print / Lisa Jardine
Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1993

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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
Subject Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536 -- Authorship
SUBJECT Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536 -- Authorship
Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536 fast
Érasme, (1469-1536) ram
Subject Authors, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Netherlands -- Biography
Authors and publishers -- Netherlands -- History -- 16th century
Scholarly publishing -- Netherlands -- History -- 16th century
Printing -- Netherlands -- History -- 16th century
Authorship -- History -- 16th century
Humanists -- Netherlands
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Latin.
PHILOSOPHY -- Religious.
Authors and publishers
Authors, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Authorship
Humanists
Intellectual life
Printing
Scholarly publishing
Geleerdheid.
Humanisme (cultuurgeschiedenis)
Uitgeven.
Imprimeurs -- Pays-Bas -- Histoire -- 16e siècle.
Humanistes -- Pays-Bas.
SUBJECT Netherlands -- Intellectual life -- 16th century
Subject Netherlands
Pays-Bas -- Vie intellectuelle -- 16e siècle.
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780691606811
0691606811
9781400863259
1400863252