Erasmus' Miniatures
Letters, Adages, Colloquies and Other Short Forms
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2025
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-71070-2 (ISBN)
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-71070-2 (ISBN)
Among the many books Erasmus published, his most popular were anthologies or collections that grew in series of editions.
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, and remain attractive as the most intimate expressions of his thoughts, moods, hopes, and terrors.
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, and remain attractive as the most intimate expressions of his thoughts, moods, hopes, and terrors.
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).
| Erscheinungsdatum | 06.12.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Brill's Studies in Intellectual History ; 364 |
| Verlagsort | Leiden |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 399 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 90-04-71070-1 / 9004710701 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-90-04-71070-2 / 9789004710702 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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