Erasmus of Rotterdam

A Portrait
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-7965-4192-6
Verlag: Schwabe Verlag

Buch, Englisch, 177 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 357 g

Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466/67–1536) remains, for good reason, the best-known humanist of his time. He influenced reformers, philosophers, politicians, literati, legal scholars, educators, artists and musicians in his own as well as in later centuries and covered an astonishingly broad range of topics: war and peace, politics and human dignity, jurisdiction and philosophy of law, church music and homiletics, piety and common wisdom, style and manners, as well as questions of matrimony, gender and education. Indeed, Erasmine thought continues to influence European intellectual history to this day. Christine Christ-von Wedel introduces Erasmus as a personality but also expands on his rich and multi-layered thinking and the struggles and longings in the age of Reformation characterised by his clashes with both Martin Luther and the Catholic establishment.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Christ-von-Wedel, Christine

Weitere Mitwirkende

Pury, Albert de

Rummel, Erika

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Neuzeit

Über Autor(innen)

Christ-von-Wedel, Christine
In 2015, Christine Christ-von Wedel received the prestigious Basel Wissenschaftspreis for her work on Humanism, Reformation and mission history. She is an honorary research fellow in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Basel and at the Institut für Schweizerische Reformationsgeschichte, University of Zurich.

In 2015, Christine Christ-von Wedel received the prestigious Basel Wissenschaftspreis for her work on Humanism, Reformation and mission history. She is an honorary research fellow in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Basel and at the Institut für Schweizerische Reformationsgeschichte, University of Zurich. She is a highly respected Erasmus specialist, and her recent publications include the well-received book Erasmus of Rotterdam. Advocate of a New Christianity.
Albert de Pury grew up in Basel/Switzerland and taught Old Testament at the universities of Neuchâtel and Geneva. He holds honorary doctorates of the universities of Budapest (Károli Gáspár Univerity) and Zurich. Apart from being a specialist in Biblical literature, he has become a renowned cartoonist.