Erasmus' Miniatures

Letters, Adages, Colloquies and Other Short Forms
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-71070-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 364, 156 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History

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, but remain attractive as the most intimate expressions of his thoughts, moods, hopes, and terrors, and reflections of his times.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Regier, Willis Goth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein

Über Autor(innen)

Willis Goth Regier, Ph.D. (1978, University of Nebraska). Across four decades he has served as the director of three distinguished university presses: Nebraska, Johns Hopkins, and Illinois. He currently teaches on the Enlightenment in the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Illinois. He is the author of Book of the Sphinx (2004); In Praise of Flattery (2007); and Quotology (2010). His father was Willis Regier, the architect; to prevent confusion he is Willis Goth Regier.