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Erasmus, Man of Letters : The Construction of Charisma in Print by Lisa Jardine is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
What is Erasmus, Man of Letters : The Construction of Charisma in Print about?
The name Erasmus of Rotterdam conjures up a golden age of scholarly integrity and the disinterested pursuit of knowledge, when learning could command public admiration without the need for authorial self-promotion. Lisa Jardine, however, shows that Erasmus self-consciously created his own reputation as the central figure of the European intellectual world. Erasmus himself—the historical as opposed to the figural individual—was a brilliant, maverick innovator, who achieved little formal academic
Who reads Erasmus, Man of Letters : The Construction of Charisma in Print?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Lisa Jardine
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Published
- 1993
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781400866175
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Memoir, Literary Fiction, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25