Erasmus' Miniatures : Letters, Adages, Colloquies and Other Short Forms / Willis Goth Regier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Regier, Willis Goth, author.

Series:

Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books online, Collection 2026.

Brill's Studies in Intellectual History ; 364

Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books online, Collection 2026

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reformation texts with translation (1350-1650). Biblical studies.

Reformation texts with translation (1350-1650).

Book History and Cartography.

History of the Book.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (164 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Letters, Adages, Colloquies and Other Short Forms

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

There is hardly a sixteenth-century genre that Erasmus did not try, often ambitiously. He made big books from little things: proverbs, anecdotes, metaphors, quotations, and textual notes. The works that have withstood the tests of time are satires and edited collections: Praise of Folly , Julius exclusus , the Adagia , letters, and colloquies. There are no better introductions to Erasmus than these, and they share a common emphasis on variety. Erasmus' Miniatures examines his lifelong interest in small genres and his use of them, inserting them into larger works or gradually amassing them in books of a thousand pages. They were written to teach Latin and inculcate Christian values, and remain attractive as the most intimate expressions of his thoughts, moods, hopes, and terrors, and reflections of his times.

Contents:

Preface

Acknowledgments

List of Figures

Abbreviations

1 Introduction: Strings, Structures, and Heaps

2 Erasmus’ Encomia

1 Erasmus’ Encomia

2 The Panegyricus

3 Erasmus on Flattery

4 Panegyricus Revisited

5 Conclusions

3 Erasmus’ Letters

1 Publishing Letters

2 Posthumous Printings

3 The Legacy

4 The Colloquies

1 Choosing Colloquies

2 Erasmus as Educator

3 Colloquy Clusters

4 Uses of the Colloquies

5 Erasmus as Storyteller

6 All, Some, or Only One

5 Collecting Adages

1 Length Matters

2 Faciat licet ipse periclum

3 Selecting Adages

4 Uncollected Adages

5 Conclusion

6 Adages as Insults

1 Enemies of Belles Lettres

2 Odi prophanum vulgus

3 Insulting the Semidocti

7 Erasmus and Fables

1 Erasmus’ Allusions to Aesop

2 From Aesop to Erasmus

3 Erasmus as Fabulist

4 Conclusions

8 Erasmus’ Excuses

9 Conclusion

Appendix 1: Uncollected Adages from Erasmus’ Other Works

Appendix 2: Collectanea Adages Absent in the Chiliades

Appendix 3: Fables in the Adagia

Appendix 4: Fables Attributed to Erasmus in the 1514 Strasbourg Fabularum and Its Successors

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-71071-X

OCLC:

1555346743

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004710719 DOI