Title: Erasmus, man of letters
Subtitle: the construction of charisma in print
First published: 1993
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."
Subjects: History, Authorship, Authors, Latin (Medieval and modern), Intellectual life, Humanists, Printing, Authors and publishers, Scholarly publishing, Biography, Erasmus, desiderius, -1536, Netherlands, history, Printing, history, Netherlands, social life and customs, Authors, latin, Europe, intellectual life
Places: Netherlands
People: Desiderius Erasmus (d. 1536)
Time periods: 16th century
LC classification: PA8518 .J36 1993