Erasmus StudiesPub Date : 2022-03-06DOI: 10.1163/18749275-04201009
B. Perona
{"title":"Authority Revisited: Towards Thomas More and Erasmus in 1516, by Wim François, Violet Soen, Anthony Dupont, Andrea Aldo Robiglio (eds.)","authors":"B. Perona","doi":"10.1163/18749275-04201009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18749275-04201009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40983,"journal":{"name":"Erasmus Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45843443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Erasmus StudiesPub Date : 2022-03-06DOI: 10.1163/18749275-04201007
José Luis Gastañaga Ponce de León
{"title":"Erasmo de Róterdam, Coloquios, by Julián Solana Pujalte & Rocío Carande (eds.)","authors":"José Luis Gastañaga Ponce de León","doi":"10.1163/18749275-04201007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18749275-04201007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40983,"journal":{"name":"Erasmus Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41705208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Erasmus StudiesPub Date : 2022-03-06DOI: 10.1163/18749275-04201003
Willis Goth Regier
{"title":"Pierre Bayle’s Erasmus","authors":"Willis Goth Regier","doi":"10.1163/18749275-04201003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18749275-04201003","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Desiderius Erasmus (1466?-1536) and Pierre Bayle (1647–1706) are two of the most respected figures in the Republic of Letters. Their names are often joined due to similarities in their thinking and concerns, their ties to Rotterdam, their coincidental circumstances, and Bayle’s own praise of Erasmus. Bayle read Erasmus carefully, quoted him often, cited him more often still, and noted his flaws. This paper tracks Bayle’s explicit references to Erasmus in his journalism, books, and letters. It indicates what he read and what he apparently preferred among Erasmus’ writings. It observes Bayle’s rare ensemble of Erasmian affinities, his contributions to Erasmus scholarship, and his uses of Erasmus in his own work.","PeriodicalId":40983,"journal":{"name":"Erasmus Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43721909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Erasmus StudiesPub Date : 2021-10-08DOI: 10.1163/18749275-04102002
R. Gibson
{"title":"Portraying Friendship by the Book","authors":"R. Gibson","doi":"10.1163/18749275-04102002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18749275-04102002","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article responds to the philosopher Alexander Nehamas’ argument that “no gesture, look, or bodily disposition, no attitude, feeling, or emotion, no action and no situation is associated with friendship firmly enough to make its representation a matter for the eye.” The article proposes a “humanist exception” to Nehamas’ general rule. Building on Lorna Hutson’s argument that humanism “textualized” friendship, I contend that in the early modern period scholars and artists associated with humanism were engaged in the development of a set of recognizable signs of friendship connected to the distinctive humanist culture of the book and associated activities of reading, writing, and circulating texts. The article offers a case study of Quentin Metsys’ diptych of Erasmus and Pieter Gillis (1517) and then applies the lessons gleaned from that work to a picture that Nehamas cites as evidence of his claim, Jacopo Pontormo’s Two Men with a Passage from Cicero’s “On Friendship” (ca. 1522). Both pictures, I contend, not only depict friendship but also promote humanist ideals of friendship to the viewer.","PeriodicalId":40983,"journal":{"name":"Erasmus Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47900386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Erasmus StudiesPub Date : 2021-10-08DOI: 10.1163/18749275-04102003
A. Blair, Maryam Patton
{"title":"A Quantitative Study of the Paratexts in Erasmus-Froben Imprints","authors":"A. Blair, Maryam Patton","doi":"10.1163/18749275-04102003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18749275-04102003","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 We study the paratexts in Erasmus’ imprints with Johann then Hieronymus Froben of Basel between 1514 and 1536. From Valentina Sebastiani’s bibliography of Johann Froben we observe that Erasmus was a more abundant paratexter than other authors who published with Johann Froben. We supplement that work with a bibliography of Erasmus’ imprints with Hieronymus Froben. We note trends across the Erasmus-Froben corpus, including: a remarkable number of imprints, equally balanced between new editions and re-editions, abundant dedications without correlation to format, indexes in folio volumes especially, a growing attention to errata lists over time. These patterns shed light on one author-printer partnership but also on more general trends in learned publishing in the early 16th century.","PeriodicalId":40983,"journal":{"name":"Erasmus Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48967739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Erasmus StudiesPub Date : 2021-10-08DOI: 10.1163/18749275-04102001
M. Ptaszyński
{"title":"Theologians and Their Bellies","authors":"M. Ptaszyński","doi":"10.1163/18749275-04102001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18749275-04102001","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 An analysis of the role and meaning of the epithet “theologaster,” coined by Erasmus of Rotterdam in his letter from Paris in 1497, can reward us with insights into the interplay of Reformation, scholastic, and humanist forces in the sixteenth century. Although Erasmus rarely used the term in his later correspondence or in his works, the epithet gained some popularity among the humanists and the reformers. During the confessional debates, both sides, the Catholics and the Protestants in the Holy Roman Empire and in France, reached for this same epithet as an argument and a weapon with which to demonstrate the incompetence of their opponents. The term, however, can rarely be found in the confessional polemics in Poland, despite the enormous popularity of Erasmus in the region. The history of the epithet sheds light on the importance of the humanist legacy for the confessional era.","PeriodicalId":40983,"journal":{"name":"Erasmus Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44787797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}