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Erasmian Keywords

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Erasmus of Rotterdam took meticulous care of his image, both in his writings and in fashionable means of self-expression, which included numerous portraits, a medal and a personal device. Nevertheless, he remains an elusive figure. In an effort to shed new light on his style, key concepts and popularity, this book takes four words as starting points for essays about some of Erasmus’ most distinctive ideas: lucubratio, festivitas, persona, and copia. They all capture convictions, projects and practices that inform and characterise his works. In the sense proposed by Raymond Williams, they are keywords that encapsulate intellectual and social change beyond pure ideas, thus keys to the dynamic Latin humanist literature of the early sixteenth century in general.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-12-31
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieEdinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture
Antal sidor216
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781399551755

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Anita Traninger is Full Professor of Romance Literatures at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Her research focuses on the shape of knowledge, predominantly in the early modern period, and specifically with a view to European literatures in a global context. She has published widely on the history and theory of rhetoric as well as the history of reading, books and media. In 2023, she was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, the most prestigious research award in Germany, and was elected a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the Humanities.