Erasmus, man of letters the construction of charisma in print / Lisa Jardine.

Author/creator Jardine, Lisa
Format Electronic
EditionNew paperback printing with a new a preface by the author
Publication InfoPrinceton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2015.
Descriptionxv, 284 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects
Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536--Authorship.
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.
Netherlands--Intellectual life. --16th century.

Contents List of illustrations -- Preface to the new paperback edition -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Self-portrait in pen and ink -- Better portrait of Erasmus will his writings show: fashioning the figure -- In(de)scribable Aura of the Scholar-Saint in his study: Erasmus's Life and Letters of Saint Jerome -- Inventing Rudolph Agricola: recovery and transmission of the De invention dialectica -- Recovered manuscripts and second editions: staging the book with the Castigatores -- Reasoning abundantly: Erasmus, Agricola, and Copia -- Concentric circles: confected correspondence and the Opus epistolarum Erasmi -- Conclusion: The name of Erasmus will never perish -- Appendices -- Notes -- Index.
Abstract Overview: 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."-- Source other than the Library of Congress
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 207-278) index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2015930403
ISBN9780691165691 (pbk : acid-free paper)
ISBN0691165696 (pbk : acid-free paper)