Secrets

Humanism, Mysticism, and Evangelism in Erasmus of Rotterdam, Bishop Guillaume Briçonnet, and Marguerite de Navarre
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-28124-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 231, 180 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 417 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History

In Secrets: Humanism, Mysticism, and Evangelism in Erasmus of Rotterdam, Bishop Guillaume Briçonnet, and Marguerite de Navarre, Jacob Vance argues that Erasmus and French Evangelical humanists made secrecy central to their literary thought. They revived Scriptural, medieval, and early Renaissance notions of secrecy in their spiritual and profane literature to advance the reforms in church and society that they advocated.

Erasmus, Briçonnet, and Marguerite expanded on Origenian, Augustinian, and pseudo-Dionysian concepts of divine mystery, as being secret, throughout their works. By developing the idea that the divine remains both transcendent and immanent in the world of creation, these humanists explored, through literature, how the human spirit can either accede, or fail to accede, to the secrets of Christian wisdom.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vance, Jacob

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Neuzeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Christliche Spiritualität, Christliche Mystik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction. Secrets in Humanist, Mystical, and Evangelical Literature

1. Secrets Between Philosophy, Biblical Interpretation, and Literature: Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466/9-1536)
2. Mysticism and Aesthetics in French Evangelical Humanism (1450-1536)
3. Mystical and Courtly Secrets: Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1549)
4. Evangelical Secrecy and Courtly News: The Heptameron (1559)
Conclusion. Secrecy and Covers Between Literature, Philosophy, and Theology

Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Works
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jacob Vance, Ph.D. (2004), The Johns Hopkins University, is a visiting scholar at Harvard University and a teacher at the New England Conservatory. He has published articles on Guillaume Briçonnet, Erasmus, Lefèvre d’Étaples, Marguerite de Navarre, and Montaigne.