Erasmus' Miniatures: Letters, Adages, Colloquies and Other Short Forms - Couverture rigide

Regier, Willis Goth

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9004710701 ISBN 13 : 9789004710702

Editeur : Brill, 2025

Synopsis

There is hardly a sixteenth-century genre that Erasmus did not try, often ambitiously. He made big books from little things: proverbs, anecdotes, metaphors, quotations, and textual notes. The works that have withstood the tests of time are satires and edited collections: Praise of Folly, Julius exclusus, the Adagia, letters, and colloquies. There are no better introductions to Erasmus than these, and they share a common emphasis on variety. Erasmus' Miniatures examines his lifelong interest in small genres and his use of them, inserting them into larger works or gradually amassing them in books of a thousand pages. They were written to teach Latin and inculcate Christian values, but remain attractive as the most intimate expressions of his thoughts, moods, hopes, and terrors, and reflections of his times.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Willis Goth Regier, Ph.D. (1978, University of Nebraska) has served as the director of the University of Nebraska Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, and the University of Illinois Press. He is the author of Book of the Sphinx (2004), In Praise of Flattery (2007), and Quotology (2010).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brill
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9004710701
• ISBN 13: 9789004710702
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 164
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