Description
About the Author
William Barker is Inglis Professor and former president of the University of King's College and Emeritus Professor of English, Dalhousie University. He has edited a selection of Erasmus' Adages and co-edited the introductory volume of the Adages for the Toronto Collected Works of Erasmus.
Reviews
"This book is a gem. It follows Erasmus, the great Renaissance humanist, through a life full of travel, comity, controversy, and scholarship. Barker offers expert distillations of Erasmus's wide-ranging works and a judicious selection of examples, references, and images. We learn about the many ingredients of Erasmus's success as a scholar, including his personality traits and intellectual commitments, and his patrons, friends, and helpers." -- Ann Blair, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor, Harvard University
"An engaging and very readable popular biography, at times amusing, with insights into the relation of the humanities in Erasmus's time to our own." -- Erika Rummel, University of Toronto
Book Information
ISBN 9781789144512
Author William Barker
Format Hardback
Page Count 224
Imprint Reaktion Books
Publisher Reaktion Books