Erasmus of Rotterdam: The Spirit of a Scholar by Barker, William

Erasmus of Rotterdam: The Spirit of a Scholar

The first English-language popular biography of widely influential northern Renaissance scholar Erasmus of Rotterdam in twenty years....
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Author: William Barker
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Erasmus of Rotterdam: The Spirit of a Scholar by Barker, William

Erasmus of Rotterdam: The Spirit of a Scholar

$46.60

Erasmus of Rotterdam: The Spirit of a Scholar

$46.60
Author: William Barker
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
The first English-language popular biography of widely influential northern Renaissance scholar Erasmus of Rotterdam in twenty years.

Erasmus of Rotterdam came from an obscure background but, through remarkable perseverance, skill, and independent vision, became a powerful and controversial intellectual figure in Europe in the early sixteenth century. He was known for his vigorous opposition to war, intolerance, and hypocrisy, and at the same time for irony and subtlety that could confuse his friends as well as his opponents. His ideas about language, society, scholarship, and religion influenced the rise of the Reformation and had a huge impact on the humanities, and that influence continues today. This book shows how an independent textual scholar was able, by the power of the printing press and his wits, to attain both fame and notoriety. Drawing on the immense wealth of recent scholarship devoted to Erasmus, Erasmus of Rotterdam is the first English-language popular biography of this crucial thinker in twenty years.

Author: William Barker
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 11/26/2021
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.70w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781789144512


Review Citation(s):
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About the Author
William Barker is the Inglis Professor and former president of the University of King's College as well as professor emeritus of English at Dalhousie University. He is the editor of The Adages of Erasmus.

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