Erasmus, Man of Letters : The Construction of Charisma in Print - Updated Edition EPUB
by Lisa Jardine
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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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- Pages:304 pages
- Publisher:Princeton University Press
- Publication Date:23/06/2015
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- ISBN:9781400866175
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:304 pages
- Publisher:Princeton University Press
- Publication Date:23/06/2015
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- ISBN:9781400866175