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IV-5B Ordinis quarti tomus quintus B
Apophthegmata (Liber VI)
Series: - Opera Omnia Desiderii Erasmi – Erasmus, <i>Opera Omnia</i>, Volume: IV.5B
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This work provides a commented critical edition of Erasmus’s
Apophthegmata (books V–VIII), the most successful early modern collection of memorable sayings and anecdotes. The substantial introduction analyses the genre of apophthegmata in antiquity, and the genesis, composition, sources and particularities of Erasmus’s work.
Karl A.E. Enenkel is Professor of Medieval Latin and Neo-Latin at the University of Münster. Previously he was Professor of Neo-Latin at the University of Leiden. He has published widely on international humanism, early modern culture, paratexts, literary genres 1300–1600, Neo-Latin emblems, word and image relationships, and the history of scholarship and science.
Those interested in Erasmus, in sixteenth–century religion and theology, and in the history of education. Keywords: Erasmus, polemics, literature, theology, apophthegma, apophthegmata, anecdotes, sayings.