{"product_id":"erasmus-on-literature-his-ratio-or-system-of-1518-1519-paperback-softback-9781487522100","title":"Erasmus on Literature; His Ratio or ‘System' of 1518\/1519 (Paperback \/ softback) 9781487522100","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eErasmus on Literature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHis Ratio or ‘System' of 1518\/1519\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMark Vessey (Edited by), Robert D. Sider (Translated with commentary by), Anthony Grafton (Foreword by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487522100\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 22 April 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e378 pages, 4 b\u0026amp;w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.51 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Fans of \u003ci\u003ePraise of Folly\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eColloquies\u003c\/i\u003e ought to open \u003ci\u003eErasmus on Literature\u003c\/i\u003e to see what and how Erasmus wanted them to read. Scholars of theology will scrutinize the edition carefully, as Erasmus\u0026amp;#x2019;s contemporaries did. Seminaries in need of a book that teaches exegesis more thoroughly than Augustine now have one, ready for immediate use.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - Willis Goth Regier, University of Illinois (\u003cem\u003eRenaissance and Reformation\u003c\/em\u003e) \"The need for an accessible version of this work has now been filled by this lucid translation which…These parerga make this volume useful to students and advanced researchers alike.\" - Ralph Keen, University of Illinois (\u003cem\u003eErasmus Studies\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eNone of the works included among Erasmus\u0026amp;#x2019; \u0026amp;#x2018;Literary and Educational Writings\u0026amp;#x2019; in the Collected Works of Erasmus captures his most adventurous thinking about how texts signify in – and thereby make or remake – worlds of thought, feeling, and action. The one that comes closest to doing so, the \u003ci\u003eRatio verae theologiae\u003c\/i\u003e (\u0026amp;#x2018;A System of True Theology\u0026amp;#x2019;), was first published separately in 1518 and 1519, then appeared in the preliminaries to the New Testament in Erasmus\u0026amp;#x2019; (revised) 1519 edition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis handy \u003ci\u003eRatio\u003c\/i\u003e or compendious \u0026amp;#x2018;System\u0026amp;#x2019; gave advice on how to interpret complex texts and develop persuasive arguments based upon them. Its lessons were applied to the canonical Scriptures as source, and to everyday Christian theology as target discourse. They unfold in response to the special difficulties and incitements of the biblical text in Latin and Greek, within a framework provided by classical grammar and rhetoric, adjusted to the examples of the Church Fathers as exemplary interpreters of the Bible. At every turn, the \u003ci\u003eRatio\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the instincts and intuitions of an exceptional theorist and practitioner of the cognitive, social, and political arts of written language. This student edition, the first of its kind in any language, is based on the translation and notes by Robert D. Sider in the \u003cem\u003eCollected Works of Erasmus Volume 41\u003c\/em\u003e. It is designed to make it easier to estimate the long-term value of this particular work and of Erasmus\u0026amp;#x2019; works more generally, and to allow for a multidisciplinary understanding of the lives of human beings as symbol-using creatures in worlds constructed partly by texts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword by Anthony Grafton\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIllustrations\u003cbr\u003eNotes on Contributors\u003cbr\u003eAbbreviations and Works Frequently Cited\u003cbr\u003eAbbreviations of Biblical Books Used in Explanatory Notes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEditor\u0026amp;#x2019;s Introduction\u003cbr\u003eChronology of Erasmus\u0026amp;#x2019; Life and Works\u003cbr\u003eApproaches to Erasmus\u0026amp;#x2019; Ratio or \u0026amp;#x2018;System\u0026amp;#x2019; of 1518–1519 \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Ratio in Erasmus\u0026amp;#x2019; Life and Work to 1519\u003cbr\u003eMark Vessey\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eErasmus, Sacred Literature, and Literary Theory\u003cbr\u003eBrian Cummings\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBiblical Poetics in Scholasticism and the Ratio\u003cbr\u003eChristopher Ocker\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Ratio and Annotations of Erasmus as Theory and Practice of Biblical Interpretation\u003cbr\u003eRiemer Faber\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Parable of Sincere and Sophistical Discourse in the Ratio\u003cbr\u003eKathy Eden\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eScheme of Contents of the Ratio verae theologiae\u003cbr\u003eNote on the Text\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Ratio verae theologiae\u003cbr\u003ePreface: Purpose of the Ratio\u003cbr\u003eElements of a Method for the Study of Scripture\u003cbr\u003eThe Unity in Variety of the Gospel\u003cbr\u003e\u0026amp;#x2018;The Wonderful Circle and Harmony of the Entire Drama of Christ\u0026amp;#x2019;\u003cbr\u003eThe Figurative Character of the Language of Sacred Literature \u003cbr\u003eElements of a Method for the Study of Scripture (Concluded)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExplanatory Notes\u003cbr\u003eConspectus of Church Fathers Cited in the Ratio\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eConcordance of Editions of the Ratio\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52520891089176,"sku":"9781487522100","price":25.45,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/erasmus-on-literature-his-ratio-or-system-of-1518-1519-paperback-softback-9781487522100","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}