Erasmus, Man of Letters

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Biography & Memoir, Philosophers, Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Religious
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Author: Lisa Jardine, Lisa Jardine ISBN: 9781400866175
Publisher: Princeton University Press Publication: June 23, 2015
Imprint: Princeton University Press Language: English
Author: Lisa Jardine, Lisa Jardine
ISBN: 9781400866175
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication: June 23, 2015
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Language: English

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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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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