Introduction
Part I. The Erasmian Republic of Letters
Chapter 1. Humanism as Form
Chapter 2. The Construction of the Erasmian Republic of Letters
Chapter 3. Erasmian Humanism: The Reform Program of the Universal
Intellectual
Part II. The Erasmian Republic and Its Discontents
Chapter 4. The Politics of a Disembodied Humanist
Chapter 5. More's Richard III: The Fragility of Humanist
Discourse
Chapter 6. Utopia and the No-place of the Erasmian Republic
Conclusion
Hanan Yoran is lecturer in the department of history at Ben Gurion University of the Negev.
Elegantly written, passionate, and informed by a wide learning in
Renaissance studies, HananYoran's book explores the origins of the
modern figure of the 'intellectual' in the philosophical theories
and life-stories of Erasmus of Rotterdam and Thomas More. He shows
how these two Christian humanists turned the critical methodologies
of their predecessors, the Italian humanists, into a new and much
more radical ideology of modern humanity, based on some classical
and early Christian conceptions of civic morality. Inasmuch as they
dared to challenge the ecclesiastical and political authorities of
their time and to create an independent Republic of Letters, they
set a compelling example of intellectual nonconformity that is
still relevant today.
*Joseph Mali, Tel Aviv University*
This study should prompt readers to think carefully about the early
sixteenth-century humanist movement from a fresh perspective.
*Renaissance Quarterly*
Recommended.
*CHOICE*
Readers who resist Yoran’s characterization of the autonomous
universal intellectual for being tendentious will miss some of the
more provocative insights this approach yields....Yoran’s bold and
insightful investigation solves old problems and raises new
questions, and specialists in Northern humanism generally, as well
as interpreters of the two focal figures [Erasmus and More], will
be instructed and stimulated by this comparative study.
*Erasmus Of Rotterdam Society*
Indeed, the whole book is redolent of deep immersion in its
subject, and of a passionate desire to make Milton's masque speak
to contemporary society.
*Milton Quarterly*
Between Utopia and Dystopia will be of considerable interest to
those concerned with the history of ideas for its exploration of
oppositions in humanist texts.
*Sixteenth Century Journal*
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