Erasmus, Man of Letters: The Construction of Charisma in Print - Updated Edition

di Lisa Jardine (Autore)

Princeton University Press, 2015

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."

• Autore: Lisa Jardine
• Editore: Princeton University Press
• Anno: 2015
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 304 p.
• Dimensioni: 235 x 152 mm
• Peso: 397 gr.
• EAN: 9780691165691

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