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Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey
Overview: 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,...
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Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt / Zentrale
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Overview: 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."-- Preface to the new paperback edition -- Introduction: Self-portrait in pen and ink -- Better portrait of Erasmus will his writings show: fashioning the figure -- In(de)scribable Aura of the Scholar-Saint in his study: Erasmus's Life and Letters of Saint Jerome -- Inventing Rudolph Agricola: recovery and transmission of the De invention dialectica -- Recovered manuscripts and second editions: staging the book with the Castigatores -- Reasoning abundantly: Erasmus, Agricola, and Copia -- Concentric circles: confected correspondence and the Opus epistolarum Erasmi -- Conclusion: The name of Erasmus will never perish
