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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.
Price: $244.00
Pages: 700
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Opera Omnia Desiderii Erasmi – Erasmus, Opera Omnia
Publication Date:
08 July 2024
ISBN: 9789004448315
Format: Other
“For twelve years Enenkel devoted much of his research and seminars to the preparation of these three volumes. That devotion is manifest, in bulk and perception. [...] Enenkel’s introduction is one the most exhaustive in the ASD [series], and his annotation is Herculean: he took pains to identify precisely the sources Erasmus drew upon—books and manuscripts of prior translations and collections. [...] Enenkel sorts out sources better than anyone has done before.”
Willis Goth Regier, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. In: Erasmus Studies, Vol. 46, No. 1 (2026), pp. 84–88.
Willis Goth Regier, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. In: Erasmus Studies, Vol. 46, No. 1 (2026), pp. 84–88.
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.