“The Burning Light of Phoebus”: A New Perspective on Erasmus’ Poem to St. Genevieve
This essay examines a brief and little-known composition by Erasmus of Rotterdam, a poem dedicated to St. Genevieve. The presence of a votive composition dedicated to a saint is an atypical occurrence among Erasmus’ humanistic writings, which generally reduce the importance of saintly devotion and w...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2023
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Erasmus studies
Year: 2023, Volume: 43, Issue: 2, Pages: 141-159 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KCD Hagiography; saints NBE Anthropology |
| Further subjects: | B
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B cult of the saints B Marian cult B Reformation B Gender |
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