Collected Works of Erasmus - Desiderius Erasmus

Collected Works of Erasmus

Adages: IV iii 1 to V ii 51, Volume 36
Buch | Softcover
688 Seiten
2016
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-2075-5 (ISBN)
123,45 inkl. MwSt
This sixth volume devoted to the Adages completes the translation and annotation of the more than 4000 proverbs Erasmus gathered and commented on. It is a fully annotated, accurate, and readable English version of Erasmus' commentaries on these Greek and Latin proverbs.
This sixth of seven volumes devoted to the Adages in the Collected Works of Erasmus completes the translation and annotation of the more than 4000 proverbs gathered and commented on by Erasmus in his Adagiorum Chiliades (Thousands of Adages, usually known more simply as the Adagia). This volume’s aim, like that of the others, is to provide a fully annotated, accurate, and readable English version of Erasmus' commentaries on these Greek and Latin proverbs, and to show how Erasmus continued to expand this work, originally published in 1508, until his death in 1536. An indication of Erasmus' unflagging interest in classical proverbs is that almost 500 of the 951 adages translated in this volume did not make their first appearance until the edition of 1533.

Following in the tradition of meticulous scholarship for which the Collected Works of Erasmus is widely known, the notes to this volume identify the classical sources and illustrate how the content of his commentaries on the adages often reflects Erasmus' scholarly and editing interests in the classical authors at a particular time. The work was highly acclaimed and circulated widely in Erasmus' time, serving as a conduit for transmitting classical proverbs into the vernacular languages, in which many of the proverbs still survive to this day.

Volume 36 of the Collected Works of Erasmus series.

Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536), a Dutch humanist, Catholic priest, and scholar, was one of the most influential Renaissance figures. A professor of divinity and Greek, Erasmus wrote, taught, and travelled, meeting with Europe’s foremost scholars. A prolific author, Erasmus wrote on both ecclesiastic and general human interest subjects. Betty I. Knott-Sharpe is a senior honourary research fellow in Classics at the University of Glasgow. John N. Grant is a professor emeritus in the Department of Classics at the University of Toronto.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Collected Works of Erasmus
Übersetzer Betty Knott-Sharpe, John Grant
Verlagsort Toronto
Sprache englisch
Maße 178 x 254 mm
Gewicht 1240 g
Themenwelt Literatur Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
Kunst / Musik / Theater
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie des Mittelalters
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie der Neuzeit
Religion / Theologie Christentum Kirchengeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-4875-2075-1 / 1487520751
ISBN-13 978-1-4875-2075-5 / 9781487520755
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