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Erasmus of Rotterdam: The Spirit of a Scholar (Renaissance Lives) - Hardcover

Buch 20 von 28: Renaissance Lives

Barker, William

 
9781789144512: Erasmus of Rotterdam: The Spirit of a Scholar (Renaissance Lives)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1789144515 ISBN 13: 9781789144512
Verlag: Reaktion Books, 2021

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The first English-language popular biography of widely influential northern Renaissance scholar Erasmus of Rotterdam in twenty years.
 
Erasmus of Rotterdam came from an obscure background but, through remarkable perseverance, skill, and independent vision, became a powerful and controversial intellectual figure in Europe in the early sixteenth century. He was known for his vigorous opposition to war, intolerance, and hypocrisy, and at the same time for irony and subtlety that could confuse his friends as well as his opponents. His ideas about language, society, scholarship, and religion influenced the rise of the Reformation and had a huge impact on the humanities, and that influence continues today. This book shows how an independent textual scholar was able, by the power of the printing press and his wits, to attain both fame and notoriety. Drawing on the immense wealth of recent scholarship devoted to Erasmus, Erasmus of Rotterdam is the first English-language popular biography of this crucial thinker in twenty years.

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William Barker is the Inglis Professor and former president of the University of King’s College as well as professor emeritus of English at Dalhousie University. He is the editor of The Adages of Erasmus.

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The first English-language biography in thirty years of Erasmus of Rotterdam.

Erasmus of Rotterdam came from an obscure background and through remarkable perseverance, skill, and vision became a powerful intellectual figure in Europe in the early sixteenth century. He was known for his vigorous opposition to war, intolerance and hypocrisy, and at the same time for an irony and subtlety that could confuse his friends as well as his opponents. His ideas influenced the rise of the Reformation and had a hug

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Verlag
Reaktion Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1789144515
ISBN 13 
9781789144512
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Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
310
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