Sachgebiete

Beschreibung:

XIV, 255 p. Originalpappband mit Schutzumschlag; hardcover with dust jacket.

Bemerkung:

Das Exemplar ist in tadellosem Zustand und neuwertig. / The copy is in mint condition and as good as new. // Klappentext/blurb text: "Though the paradigm of modernist progression has been challenged on many fronts, Erasmus and other sixteenth-century literati are still commonly viewed as people who led the way from a religious Middle Ages to a more godless modern era. Erasmus, Contarini, and the Religious Republic of Letters complicates this view by analyzing a unique realm of spiritualized scholarship that cannot fit easily into any conventional intellectual chronology. By analyzing the lives, work, and correspondence of Erasmus, Thomas More, Margaret More Roper, Reginald Pole, Gasparo Contarini, and Vittoria Colonna, this book demonstrates how these Catholic men and women of letters created a distinctive kind of religious community rooted in friendship and shared intellectual and spiritual pursuits. By spanning the too-frequently-respected gap between humanist reformers in Northern and Southern Europe, the book uncovers a widespread, if previously less visible, network that exhibited concerns we still grapple with today. And, in contrast to histories that focus on politics and new economies of representation, the book demonstrates how the religious search for meaning shaped contemporary assumptions about friendship, gender, and the value of reading and writing." // Contents -- Note on Texts -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- A New Kind of Religious Life -- 1 -- 2 Creating an Alternative Community -- 3 The Spiritual Quest -- 4 Necessary Relationships -- 5 Defining the Ideal -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography - Index. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). ISBN 9780521849876