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Secrets
Humanism, Mysticism, and Evangelism in Erasmus of Rotterdam, Bishop Guillaume Briçonnet, and Marguerite de Navarre
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In Secrets: Humanism, Mysticism, and Evangelism in Erasmus of Rotterdam, Bishop Guillaume Briçonnet, and Marguerite de Navarre, Jacob Vance argues that Erasmus and French Evangelical humanists made secrecy central to their literary thought. They revived Scriptural, medieval, and early Renaissance notions of secrecy in their spiritual and profane literature to advance the reforms in church and society that they advocated.
Erasmus, Briçonnet, and Marguerite expanded on Origenian, Augustinian, and pseudo-Dionysian concepts of divine mystery, as being secret, throughout their works. By developing the idea that the divine remains both transcendent and immanent in the world of creation, these humanists explored, through literature, how the human spirit can either accede, or fail to accede, to the secrets of Christian wisdom.
Erasmus, Briçonnet, and Marguerite expanded on Origenian, Augustinian, and pseudo-Dionysian concepts of divine mystery, as being secret, throughout their works. By developing the idea that the divine remains both transcendent and immanent in the world of creation, these humanists explored, through literature, how the human spirit can either accede, or fail to accede, to the secrets of Christian wisdom.
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 dâÃtaples, Marguerite de Navarre, and Montaigne.
âAlthough Jacob Vance explores a wide range of disciplines and written works, the volume is meticulously researched. In addition, the author constructs a cohesive and compelling argument about these writers and their intellectual, intertextual, and theological exchanges.â
Leanna Bridge Rezvani, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 69, No. 1 (Spring 2016), pp. 333-335.
Leanna Bridge Rezvani, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 69, No. 1 (Spring 2016), pp. 333-335.
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Secrets in Humanist, Mystical, and Evangelical Literature
1. Secrets Between Philosophy, Biblical Interpretation, and Literature: Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466/9-1536)
2. Mysticism and Aesthetics in French Evangelical Humanism (1450-1536)
3. Mystical and Courtly Secrets: Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1549)
4. Evangelical Secrecy and Courtly News: The Heptameron (1559)
Conclusion. Secrecy and Covers Between Literature, Philosophy, and Theology
Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Works
Index
Introduction. Secrets in Humanist, Mystical, and Evangelical Literature
1. Secrets Between Philosophy, Biblical Interpretation, and Literature: Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466/9-1536)
2. Mysticism and Aesthetics in French Evangelical Humanism (1450-1536)
3. Mystical and Courtly Secrets: Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1549)
4. Evangelical Secrecy and Courtly News: The Heptameron (1559)
Conclusion. Secrecy and Covers Between Literature, Philosophy, and Theology
Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Works
Index
The work will appeal to scholars of literature, of the Renaissance and the French Renaissance, of religion and of philosophy, and of history (intellectual, cultural, social).