Contacthours: Lectures - 16, Seminars - 16
Assessment:
Assignments (2 colloquiums, 1 written paper) and final evaluation (pass/fail) will be based on a weighting of the assignments.
Course syllabus:
Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus Rotterodamus (1469? 1536) is called the greatest European scholar of the 16th century (Britannica Macropedia). Course aims to offer a comprehensive and shrewd assessment of the wide range of Erasmian scholarship that reflects the variety of problems, methods, terms, concepts, and arguments in Northern Renaissance and lays down the ideas that fuel the Reformation movement, and a necessary insights into the personality and the intellectual friendships of Prince of the Humanists who, in his correspondence, put himself in touch with more than five hundred men of the highest importance in the Renaissance world of politics and of thought.
Main objectives:
to enable students to identify the state of transition in Renaissance philosophy and main paradigmatic shifts, to demonstrate familiarity with some examples of Erasmian philosophic discourse, to recognize some of the major problems and projects that Erasmus of Rotterdam devoted himself to and to track down traces of their historical influence.
