Jardine Erasmus, Man of Letters

The Construction of Charisma in Print - Updated Edition
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-6617-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

Lisa Jardine is professor of Renaissance studies at University College London, where she is also director of the UCL Centre for Humanities Interdisciplinary Research Projects and the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jardine, Lisa

Weitere Mitwirkende

Jardine, Lisa

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Neuzeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations vii

Preface to the New Paperback Edition ix

Acknowledgments xiii

Abbreviations xv

INTRODUCTION Self-Portrait in Pen and Ink 3

CHAPTER ONE
'A better portrait of Erasmus will his writings show': Fashioning the Figure 27

CHAPTER TWO The In(de)scribable Aura of the Scholar-Saint in His Study: Erasmus's Life and Letters of Saint Jerome 55

CHAPTER THREE Inventing Rudolph Agricola: Recovery and Transmission of the De inventione dialectica 83

CHAPTER FOUR Recovered Manuscripts and Second Edition: Staging the Book with the Castigatores 99

CHAPTER FIVE Reasoning Abundantly: Erasmus, Agricola, and Copia 129

CHAPTER SIX Concentric Circles: Confected Correspondence and the Opus epistolarum Erasmi 147

CONCLUSION 'The name of Erasmus will never perish' 175

Appendices 191

Notes 207

Index 279

Über Autor(innen)

Lisa Jardine is professor of Renaissance studies at University College London, where she is also director of the UCL Centre for Humanities Interdisciplinary Research Projects and the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters.