Adages as Insults: Erasmus against the Barbarians
The Chiliades is Erasmus' extended Antibarbari, a manual for battling enemies of belles lettres. Erasmus did not stop with adages against ignorance and vulgarity. Adages also assail particular types of scholarly misbehavior: stubbornness, pretension, repetition, distemper, plagiarism, vacuity,...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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[2020]
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Erasmus studies
Year: 2020, Volume: 40, Issue: 1, Pages: 55-64 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance |
| Further subjects: | B
Antibarbarorum
B garrulity B Insults B Adages B belles lettres B Erasmus |
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| Summary: | The Chiliades is Erasmus' extended Antibarbari, a manual for battling enemies of belles lettres. Erasmus did not stop with adages against ignorance and vulgarity. Adages also assail particular types of scholarly misbehavior: stubbornness, pretension, repetition, distemper, plagiarism, vacuity, superfluity, low- and narrow-mindedness. The scores of insults scattered through the Chiliades answer perennial scholarly needs, providing scholars with the wherewithal to insult, or respond if insulted, with precedents from classical Latin and Greek. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Erasmus studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18749275-04001002 |