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The Reception of Erasmus in the Early Modern Period

By Karl A. E. Enenkel

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Year
2013
ISBN
9004255621, 9789004255623
ISSN
1568-1181
Google Books ID
aRGaAAAAQBAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7630820 bytes)
Series
Intersections: Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture 30
Pages
xvi+276\293
Topic
History
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2014-07-25 15:50:58

Description

Erasmus was not only one of the most widely read authors of the early modern period, but one of the most controversial. For some readers he represented the perfect humanist scholar; for others, he was an arrogant hypercritic, a Lutheran heretic and polemicist, a virtuoso writer and rhetorician, an inventor of a new, authentic Latin style, etc. In the present volume, a number of aspects of Erasmus’s manifold reception are discussed, especially lesser-known ones, such as his reception in Neo-Latin poetry. The volume does not focus only on so-called Erasmians, but offers a broader spectrum of reception and demonstrates that Erasmus’s name also was used in order to authorize completely un-Erasmian ideals, such as atheism, radical reformation, Lutheranism, religious intolerance, Jesuit education, Marian devotion, etc.

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