Erasmus: The Education of a Christian Prince with the Panegyric for Archduke Philip of Austria
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Book Overview
This is a new student edition of Erasmus' crucial treatise on political theory and also contains a new, excerpted translation from his Panegyric. The Education of a Christian Prince is one of the most important advice-to-princes texts published in the Renaissance and was dedicated to Charles V. It is a strongly pacifist work in which Erasmus sought to ensure that the prince governed justly and benevolently. This edition also includes an original introduction, a chronology of the life and work of Erasmus, and a comprehensive guide to further reading.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521588111
ISBN13:9780521588119
Release Date:August 1997
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:181 Pages
Weight:0.61 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"
Customer Reviews
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Intresting protrayal of Humanists Ideas
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
The Education of A Christian prince is qutie intresesting and really gives you a sense of how the Renaissance was and kinda what people were thinking know that they didn't follow the church so strictly and that the were free to write their ideas and with the help of the printing press were able to spread the ideas like wildfire to the rest of Europe through books such as this one.
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