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ERASMUS, MAN OF LETTERS
THE CONSTRUCTION OF CHARISMA IN PRINT |
By: |
Lisa Jardine, Lisa Jardine |
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Paperback |
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£18.99 |
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£15.19 |
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ISBN 10: |
0691165696 |
ISBN 13: |
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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US |
Imprint: |
Princeton University Press |
Prizes: |
Winner of 16th Century Studies Conference: Ronald H. Bainton Book Prize 1993 |
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