Das vorliegende Lesebuch führt ein in die versunkene Welt des Humanismus und der Renaissance, in der die großen Synthesen - rhetorisch geschliffen - entworfen und verworfen wurden, in der die Liebe besungen und verschmerzt, die Kunst erhoben und der religiösen Andacht enthoben wurde und die Politik Anlaß für philosophische Meisterleistungen bot.
Paperback. The book treats two general 1. Whether Erasmanism and Erasmian Humanism existed as a recognizable attitude during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries; 2. Whether Erasminism represented a definable middle way between the confessional conflicts of these times. How important was Erasmanism in these respects? The treatment of these two questions is geographically limited to those countries where Erasmus himself was Italy, The Netherlands, Holy Roman Empire, Switzerland and England. Erasmanism as a concept has hardly been studied before, although the term is used freely by scholars of the early modern period. This book is a first attempt at a "begriffsgeschichte" of Erasminism.