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Erasmus, Man of Letters: The Construction of Charisma in Print - Updated Edition

By (author) Lisa Jardine, Preface 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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Publisher | Princeton University Press
Published date | 23 Jun 2015
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 304
Dimensions | 235 x 152 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 397g
ISBN | 978-0-6911-6569-1
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BISAC | philosophy / history & surveys / medieval


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