Erasmus, Man of Letters (eBook)

The Construction of Charisma in Print - Updated Edition

Lisa Jardine (Autor)

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2015 | Updated Edition
304 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6617-5 (ISBN)

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Lisa Jardine is professor of Renaissance studies at University College London, where she is also director of the UCL Centre for Humanities Interdisciplinary Research Projects and the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters.

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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 "e;European thought."e;

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.6.2015
• Vorwort: Lisa Jardine
• Zusatzinfo: 28 halftones.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• Schlagworte: adage • adagia • Adelmann • Aldus Manutius • Allusion • Anecdote • Annotation • author • Autobiography • Axiochus (dialogue) • Beatus Rhenanus • biblical canon • Bibliography • Biography • Book • British Library • Cambridge University Library • Career • Cicero • Classical tradition • Clergy • collation • Copia (museum) • corrector • correspondent • credential • Criticism • Curriculum • Cuthbert Tunstall • Danda • De Beneficiis • declamation • de clementia • De conscribendis epistolis • De Inventione • Desiderius Erasmus • Dialectic • Dialectica • Dialectician • Digression • Diptych • Disputation • Editing • Edition (book) • Editio princeps • editorial • Eloquence • encomium • engraving • Epigram • Epigraph (literature) • Epigraphy • Epistle • Epistle to the Romans • Ermolao Barbaro • erudition • Famulus • figurative art • Flemish painting • Gabriel Harvey • Generosity • Genre • Gerhard (cartoonist) • greeting • Handbook • Hieronymus • Illustration • Institutio Oratoria • Intention • Italian renaissance • Janus Lascaris • Jan van Eyck • John Colet • Juan Luis Vives • la lecture • Latin syntax • learning • Lecture • Legitimation • Letter of introduction • Libanius • lingua franca • Literature • Lorenzo Valla • Manuscript • Margaret Roper • Martin Kemp (art historian) • Monograph • narrative • New Latin • Northern Renaissance • On Writing (Hemingway) • Opening sentence • Paragraph • participant • Patristics • Pedagogy • Peter of Spain • petrarch • Petri • Petrus Ramus • Philosopher • Philosophy • piety • Plutarch • Poetry • Polemic • Pope Leo X • preface • Prelate • Princeton University • printing • Progymnasmata • proofreading • Prose • Provenance • proverb • Publication • Publishing • Punctuation • Quentin Matsys • Quintilian • Reed pen • Renaissance humanism • Research fellow • rhetoric • rhetorica • rhetorical question • Rodolphus Agricola • Saint Jerome in His Study (after van Eyck) • Salutation • Satires (Horace) • scholia • Scrutiny (journal) • S. (Dorst novel) • Second Letter (Plato) • Sententiae • Suetonius • Suggestion • Surety • Textbook • Textual criticism • The Praise of Folly • The Writer • Thomas Elyot • Title page • Translation • treatise • Trivium • Typographical error • typography • Understanding • University of Ferrara • William Lily (grammarian) • woodcut • Writer • Writing • Writing Style • Yale University
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6617-0 / 1400866170
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6617-5 / 9781400866175