Secrets: Humanism, Mysticism, and Evangelism in Erasmus of Rotterdam, Bishop Guillaume Briçonnet, and Marguerite de Navarre

by Jacob Vance

In Secrets: Humanism, Mysticism, and Evangelism in Erasmus of Rotterdam, Bishop Guillaume Bri?onnet, 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, Bri?onnet,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 900428124X
• ISBN13: 9789004281240
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.4"