Twenty-first Annual Margaret Mann Phillips Lecture: Tradition and Innovation in Erasmus' Epistolary Theory: A Reconsideration.

Erika Rummel has questioned why Erasmus in Opus de conscribendis epistolis attacks his predecessors in both the medieval and humanist traditions to which he is deeply indebted. This reconsideration of Erasmus' often combative guide to letter writing places it in the context of a mixed northern Europ...

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Published in:	Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook Vol. 29; no. 1; pp. 23 - 60
Main Author:	Henderson, Judith Rice
Format:	Article
Published:	Brill Academic Publishers 2010
Subjects:	Rummel, Erika Lectures & lecturing Phillips, Margaret Mann Classical literature Humanists Letter writing Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536
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