Erasmus, man of letters : the construction of charisma in print
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...
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| Format: | Livre numérique |
| Język: | Anglais |
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Princeton (N.J.) :
Princeton university press
2015.
Paris : Cyberlibris |
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| Dostęp online: | Accès Université Orléans et IFPM |
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| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
| Edition sous un autre format: | • Erasmus, man of letters, the construction of charisma in print, Lisa Jardine, 1993, Princeton (N.J.), Princeton university press, 1 vol. (XI-284 p.), 978-0-691-16569-1 |
| Streszczenie: | 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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| Deskrypcja: | Couverture. https://static2.cyberlibris.com/books_upload/136pix/9781400866175.jpg Cyberlibris (ScholarVox) Corpus Histoire |
| Bibliografia: | Notes bibliographiques p. 207-278. Index |
| ISBN: | 9781400866175 |
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