Erasmus: Life of a humanist

by Richard Claverhouse Jebb

Book Overview

This book presents the history of Erasmus, an European humanist; and his essay against war. "With Erasmus a new period opens. Two things broadly distinguish him, as a scholar, from the men before and after him. First, he was not only a refined humanist, writing for the fastidious few, and prizing no judgment but theirs; he took the most profitable authors of antiquity, -profitable in a moral as well as a literary sense, -chose out the best things...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1976147611
• ISBN13: 9781976147616
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.2" x 8.0"