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Erasmus, Man of Letters

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  • Paperback
  • 304 pages
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press
  • 15.5 x 23.5 x 1.2 cm

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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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  • Title

    Erasmus, Man of Letters

  • Author

    Lisa Jardine

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Princeton University Press

  • Published

    June 2015

  • Edition

    Updated ed

  • Weight

    442g

  • Page Count

    304

  • Dimensions

    15.5 x 23.5 x 1.2 cm

  • ISBN

    9780691165691

  • ISBN-10

    0691165696

  • Eden Code

    4315666

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