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dc.contributor.authorAkkerman, Fokke
dc.contributor.authorWaszink, Jan
dc.contributor.authorHaskell, Yasmin
dc.contributor.authorMoney, David
dc.contributor.authorVermeulen, Corinna
dc.contributor.authorKool, Wouter
dc.date.accessioned2012-12-31 23:55:55
dc.date.accessioned2018-06-26 00:00:00
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T15:17:49Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T15:17:49Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier426371
dc.identifierOCN: 842294860en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/34474
dc.description.abstractRudolph Agricola: Six Lives and Erasmus’s Testimonies The Frisian humanist Rudolph Agricola (1443-1485) is rightly famous for single-handedly bringing the Italian Renaissance to the North. Owing to his fascinating personality and many talents, he attracted the love and admiration of his contemporaries and the following generations. As a result, six biographies on Agricola have been preserved. The authors of these lives drew their materials from different sources and wrote their texts independently from each other. Differing vastly in rhetorical aims and methods, they provide us with a vivid image of cultural and intellectual life in the 15th century. Erasmus praised Agricola's work throughout his writings. No less than fifty testimonies from Erasmus and his correspondents are presented here. This edition of sources supplements the volume of Agricola's letters (BLN, 2002) and is preceded by an expert survey of all biographical information now at our disposal. Thus it fills a gap in our knowledge of a great man of letters, while correcting a number of persistent misconceptions (concerning the year of Agricola's birth, for instance).
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesbibliotheca latinitatis novae
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose::DNB Biography: general::DNBH Biography: historical, political and militaryen_US
dc.subject.otherdesiderius erasmus
dc.subject.otherrudolph agricola
dc.subject.othergerardus geldenhouwer
dc.subject.otherjohann von plieningen
dc.subject.otherneo-latin
dc.subject.otherbiography
dc.subject.othergoswinus van halen
dc.subject.otherhumanism
dc.subject.otherphilipp melanchton
dc.subject.otherBilhorod-Dnistrovskyi
dc.subject.otherDeventer
dc.subject.otherGroningen
dc.subject.otherHeidelberg
dc.subject.otherRodolphus Agricola
dc.titleRudolph Agricola: Six Lives and Erasmus’s Testimonies
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.26530/OAPEN_426371
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy79eacada-dc99-48b5-9140-368f146d66dc
oapen.collectionOAPEN-NL
oapen.pages264
oapen.place.publicationAssen
oapen.remark.publicRelevant Wikipedia pages: Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi; Deventer - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deventer; Erasmus - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasmus; Groningen - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groningen; Heidelberg - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidelberg; Latin - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin; Philip Melanchthon - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Melanchthon; Rodolphus Agricola - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodolphus_Agricola
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