Secrets - Humanism, Mysticism, and Evangelism in Erasmus of Rotterdam, Bishop Guillaume Briçonnet, and Marguerite de Navarre

In Secrets: Humanism, Mysticism, and Evangelism in Erasmus of Rotterdam, Bishop Guillaume Briçonnet, and Marguerite de Navarre, Jacob Vance explores how Erasmus and French Renaissance humanists made secrecy central to their spiritual and profane literature to advance their reforms initiatives.

About the author

Jacob Vance, Ph.D. (2004), The Johns Hopkins University, is a visiting scholar at Harvard University and a teacher at the New England Conservatory. He has published articles on Guillaume Briçonnet, Erasmus, Lefèvre d'Étaples, Marguerite de Navarre, and Montaigne.

Product details

• Authors: Jacob Vance
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.09.2014
• EAN: 9789004281240
• ISBN: 978-90-04-28124-0
• No. of pages: 190
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 239 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 417 g
• Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectua
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works