Erasmus, Contarini, and the Religious Republic of Letters - Couverture souple

Furey, Constance M.

 
9780521103435: Erasmus, Contarini, and the Religious Republic of Letters

Synopsis

Though the paradigm of modernist progression has been challenged on many fronts, Erasmus and other sixteenth-century figures are still commonly viewed as people who led the transition from a religious Middle Ages to a more godless modern era. Erasmus, Contarini and the Religious Republic of Letters, published in 2005, complicates this transition by analysing a unique realm of spiritualised scholarship that cannot fit easily into any conventional intellectual chronology. By analysing the lives, work, and correspondence of Erasmus, Thomas More, Margaret More Roper, Reginald Pole, Gasparo Contarini, and Vittoria Colonna, this book demonstrates how these Catholic men and women of letters created a distinctive kind of religious community rooted in friendship and spiritualised scholarship. By spanning the too frequently respected gap between humanist reformers in northern and southern Europe, the book uncovers a widespread, if previously less visible, network that exhibited concerns we still grapple with today.

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À propos de l?auteur

Constance M. Furey is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University. The research for this book was aided by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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9780521849876: Erasmus, Contarini, and the Religious Republic of Letters

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  052184987X ISBN 13 :  9780521849876
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2005
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