Erasmus, Contarini, and the Religious Republic of Letters
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'Constance Furey's Erasmus, Contarini, and the Religious Republic of Letters brilliantly brings together the study of intellectual community, friendship, and religion. The book makes an important contribution to studies of early modern religious and intellectual life. Perhaps even more significant will be the model it sets for religious studies scholars in reconceiving scholarship as practice and for historians of the public sphere in recognizing the crucial role religion has played and continues to play within it.' Amy Hollywood, Harvard University, The Divinity School
Book Description
Though the paradigm of modernist progression has been challenged on many fronts, Erasmus and other sixteenth-century figures are still commonly viewed as people who led the transition from a religious Middle Ages to a more godless modern era. By analyzing the lives, work, and correspondence of Erasmus, Thomas More, Margaret More Roper, Reginald Pole, Gasparo Contarini, and Vittoria Colonna, this book demonstrates how these Catholic men and women of letters created a distinctive kind of religious community rooted in friendship and spiritualized scholarship.
Erasmus, Contarini, and the Religious Republic of Letters
Erasmus, Contarini, and the Religious Republic of Letters,Constance M. Furey,Cambridge University Press,052184987X,Catholic learning and scholarship,Catholics,Christianity - Catholicism,Christianity - General,Christianity - History - Catholic,Erasmus, Desiderius,,Intellectual life,Religion,Religion - Classic Works,d. 1536,Christian theology,Religion / Christianity
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