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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jardine, Lisa, author, author of introduction, etc.

Contributor:

Jardine, Lisa.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536--Authorship.

Erasmus, Desiderius.

Authors, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Netherlands--Biography.

Authors, Latin (Medieval and modern).

Authors and publishers--Netherlands--History--16th century.

Authors and publishers.

Authorship--History--16th century.

Authorship.

Humanists--Netherlands.

Humanists.

Netherlands--Intellectual life--16th century.

Netherlands.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (301 p.)

Edition:

Updated edition with a New preface by the author

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxford, [England] : Princeton University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

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 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."

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781400866175

1400866170

OCLC:

905984446