Secrets

Humanism, Mysticism, and Evangelism in Erasmus of Rotterdam, Bishop Guillaume Briçonnet, and Marguerite de Navarre

Jacob Vance (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

180 Seiten

2014
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-28124-0 (ISBN)

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In Secrets: Humanism, Mysticism, and Evangelism in Erasmus of Rotterdam, Bishop Guillaume Briçonnet, and Marguerite de Navarre, Jacob Vance explores how Erasmus and French Renaissance humanists made secrecy central to their spiritual and profane literature to advance their reforms initiatives.

In Secrets: Humanism, Mysticism, and Evangelism in Erasmus of Rotterdam, Bishop Guillaume Briçonnet, and Marguerite de Navarre, Jacob Vance argues that Erasmus and French Evangelical humanists made secrecy central to their literary thought. They revived Scriptural, medieval, and early Renaissance notions of secrecy in their spiritual and profane literature to advance the reforms in church and society that they advocated.

Erasmus, Briçonnet, and Marguerite expanded on Origenian, Augustinian, and pseudo-Dionysian concepts of divine mystery, as being secret, throughout their works. By developing the idea that the divine remains both transcendent and immanent in the world of creation, these humanists explored, through literature, how the human spirit can either accede, or fail to accede, to the secrets of Christian wisdom.

Jacob Vance, Ph.D. (2004), The Johns Hopkins University, is a visiting scholar at Harvard University and a teacher at the New England Conservatory. He has published articles on Guillaume Briçonnet, Erasmus, Lefèvre d’Étaples, Marguerite de Navarre, and Montaigne.

Acknowledgments
Introduction. Secrets in Humanist, Mystical, and Evangelical Literature

1. Secrets Between Philosophy, Biblical Interpretation, and Literature: Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466/9-1536)
2. Mysticism and Aesthetics in French Evangelical Humanism (1450-1536)
3. Mystical and Courtly Secrets: Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1549)
4. Evangelical Secrecy and Courtly News: The Heptameron (1559)
Conclusion. Secrecy and Covers Between Literature, Philosophy, and Theology

Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Works
Index

Reihe/Serie	Brill's Studies in Intellectual History ; 231
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	433 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	90-04-28124-X / 900428124X
ISBN-13	978-90-04-28124-0 / 9789004281240
Zustand	Neuware