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The Reception of Erasmus in the Early Modern Period: 30
Author(s): Karl A E Enenkel
- Publisher: Brill
- Publication Date: 1 Aug. 2013
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 292 pages
- ISBN-10: 9004255621
- ISBN-13: 9789004255623
Book Description
Erasmus was not only one of the most widely read authors of the early modern period, but one of the most controversial. For some readers he represented the perfect humanist scholar; for others, he was an arrogant hypercritic, a Lutheran heretic and polemicist, a virtuoso writer and rhetorician, an inventor of a new, authentic Latin style, etc. In the present volume, a number of aspects of Erasmus’s manifold reception are discussed, especially lesser-known ones, such as his reception in Neo-Latin poetry. The volume does not focus only on so-called Erasmians, but offers a broader spectrum of reception and demonstrates that Erasmus’s name also was used in order to authorize completely un-Erasmian ideals, such as atheism, radical reformation, Lutheranism, religious intolerance, Jesuit education, Marian devotion, etc.
Contributors include: Philip Ford, Dirk Sacré, Paul J. Smith, Lucia Felici, Gregory D. Dodds, Hilmar M. Pabel, Reinier Leushuis, Jeanine De Landtsheer, Johannes Trapman, and Karl Enenkel.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“meticulously researched […] The ten essays in this volume […] are splendidly introduced by editor Karl Enenkel and provide an illuminating look at the ways in which Erasmus was perceived, received, and his work appropriated in a variety of European contexts.”
Donald K. McKim, Germantown, Tennessee. In: Journal of Jesuit Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2 (2014), pp. 303-304.
Donald K. McKim, Germantown, Tennessee. In: Journal of Jesuit Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2 (2014), pp. 303-304.
“To understand how Erasmus was read, as this rich and illuminating collection shows, is to read and understand Erasmus anew.”
Seth Lobis, Claremont McKenna College. In:
About the Author
Karl Enenkel is Professor of Medieval Latin and Neo-Latin at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Germany). Previously he was Professor of Neo-Latin at the University of Leiden (Netherlands). He has published widely on international Humanism, early modern organisation of knowledge, literary genres 1300-1600, and emblem studies.
