ERASMUS, MAN OF LETTERS by Lisa Jardine, Lisa Jardine ( 9780691165691 )

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ERASMUS, MAN OF LETTERS
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Lisa Jardine, Lisa Jardine

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0691165696

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9780691165691

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PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

16 June, 2015

Edition:

Updated edition with a New preface by the author

Pages:

304

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."

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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."

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28 halftones.

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Princeton University Press

Prizes:

Winner of 16th Century Studies Conference: Ronald H. Bainton Book Prize 1993

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