The Reception of Erasmus in the Early Modern Period

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-04-25562-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 30, 292 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 558 g

Reihe: Intersections

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Enenkel, Karl A E

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Alternative Glaubensformen Agnostizismus, Atheismus, Säkularer Humanismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Notes on the Editor
Notes on the Contributors
List of Illustrations

Introduction – Manifold Reader Responses: The Reception of Erasmus in the Early Modern Europe
Karl Enenkel

PART I. HUMANISM

A Blueprint for the Reception of Erasmus: Beatus Rhenanus’s Second Vita Erasmi (1540)
Karl Enenkel

Medicinae laus per Eobanum Hessum ex Erasmo, versu reddita Reassessed
Dirk Sacré

PART II. RELIGIOUS IDEAS
Universalism and Tolerance in a Follower of Erasmus from Zurich: Theodor Bibliander
Lucia Felici

‘Betwixt Heaven and Hell’: Religious Toleration and the Reception of Erasmus in Restoration England
Gregory D. Dodds

Praise and Blame: Peter Canisius’s Ambivalent Assessment of Erasmus
Hilmar M. Pabel

PART III. POLITICAL IDEAS: IRENISM AND MIRROR OF A CHRISTIAN PRINCE

Erasmian Irenism in the Poetry of Pierre de Ronsard
Philip Ford†

On Good Government: Erasmus’s Institutio Principis Christiani versus Lipsius’s Politica
Jeanine De Landtsheer

PART IV. RABELAISIAN SATIRE, TRIUMPH, DIALOGUE AND OTHER ADAPTATIONS: RECEPTIONS OF THE PRAISE OF FOLLY IN FRENCH, ITALIAN AND DUTCH LITERATURE

Jean Thenaud and François Rabelais: Some Hypotheses on the Early Reception of Erasmus in French Vernacular Literature
Paul J. Smith

Antonio Brucioli and the Italian Reception of Erasmus: The Praise of Folly in Dialogue
Reinier Leushuis

Erasmus and the Radical Enlightenment: An Atheistic Adaptation of the Praise of Folly by Jan van der Wyck (1798)
Johannes Trapman

Index Nominum

Über Autor(innen)

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.