Erasmus, Man of Letters
Subtitle: The Construction of Charisma in Print - Updated Edition
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: Jun 23, 2015
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780691165691
Description: 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."
Notes: Source title: Erasmus, Man of Letters: The Construction of Charisma in Print - Updated Edition