Erasmus and Sleep: A Case Study for the History of Sleep in the Early Modern Period
Erasmus of Rotterdam viewed sleep as playing a fundamental role in the functioning of the intellect and in the preservation of health. As a young man, Erasmus found the vigils imposed in the middle of the night in the monastery of the Austin Canons in Steyn too heavy a burden for him, and he mention...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2023
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The sixteenth century journal
Year: 2023, Volume: 54, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 355-379 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KCA Monasticism; religious orders NBE Anthropology |
| Further subjects: | B
Sleep
B ERASMUS, Desiderius, d. 1536 B Health B Intellect B MONASTIC life |
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| Summary: | Erasmus of Rotterdam viewed sleep as playing a fundamental role in the functioning of the intellect and in the preservation of health. As a young man, Erasmus found the vigils imposed in the middle of the night in the monastery of the Austin Canons in Steyn too heavy a burden for him, and he mentioned them regularly among the reasons why he was not made for the monastic life. With his famous colloquy Diluculum , however, Erasmus played a part in imposing on the modern West the idea that one needs to rise early to accomplish complex intellectual work. As a corollary, but one that is much less known than his advice in the Diluculum , Erasmus strictly avoided night work and advised his readers to do the same. |
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| ISSN: | 2326-0726 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The sixteenth century journal
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1086/727953 |
