Erasmus in English 1523-1584, Volume II
The Praise of Folly and Other Writings
Edited by Alex Davis, Gordon Kendal and Neil Rhodes
Click cover to enlarge Buy hardback at: Buy paperback at: Booksellers & libraries: | Tudor and Stuart Translations 26/2 of 3 Modern Humanities Research Association 5 January 2023 • 396pp ISBN: 978-1-781889-45-9 (hardback) • RRP £49.99, $59.99, €59.99 ISBN: 978-1-781889-46-6 (paperback) • RRP £27.99, $34.99, €34.99 ISBN: 978-1-781889-47-3 (JSTOR ebook) Sample: Google Books • Access online: Books@JSTOR This is volume 2 of 3. See also volume 1 here and volume 3 here. Although not translated into English until 1549, Erasmus’s most famous work, the Praise of Folly, has an English provenance as the product of his friendship with Thomas More. The text of the original translation, by Thomas Chaloner, appears here for the first time in a fully annotated, modernised edition. It is presented alongside a selection from the English Paraphrases, a central text of the Edwardian Reformation; translations of two pacifist works, the Bellum Erasmi and The Complaint of Peace, the second of which is constructed as an oration, like Praise of Folly; and the essay on the adage Sileni Alcibiadis. Alex Davis is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of three books: Chivalry and Romance in the English Renaissance (Boydell and Brewer, 2003), Renaissance Historical Fiction (Boydell and Brewer, 2011), and Imagining Inheritance from Chaucer to Shakespeare (OUP, 2020). Gordon Kendal was formerly Chaplain and Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, where he taught philosophy and theology, and he has held an honorary research fellowship in English at St Andrews. He edited Gavin Douglas’s Aeneid and George Chapman’s Odyssey for MHRA Tudor and Stuart Translations. Neil Rhodes is Professor of English Literature and Cultural History at the University of St Andrews. His books include Shakespeare and the Origins of English (OUP, 2004) and Common: The Development of Literary Culture in Sixteenth-Century England (OUP, 2018), and he has also edited the volume English Renaissance Translation Theory for the MHRA Tudor and Stuart Translations. Reviews:
For a contents listing, see this volume at JSTOR. Bibliography entry: Davis, Alex, Gordon Kendal, and Neil Rhodes (eds), Erasmus in English 1523-1584, Volume II: The Praise of Folly and Other Writings, Tudor and Stuart Translations, 26 (MHRA, 2023) First footnote reference: 35 Erasmus in English 1523-1584, Volume II: The Praise of Folly and Other Writings, ed. by Alex Davis, Gordon Kendal and Neil Rhodes, Tudor and Stuart Translations, 26 (MHRA, 2023), p. 21. Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Davis, Kendal, and Rhodes, p. 47. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Bibliography entry: Davis, Alex, Gordon Kendal, and Neil Rhodes (eds). 2023. Erasmus in English 1523-1584, Volume II: The Praise of Folly and Other Writings, Tudor and Stuart Translations, 26 (MHRA) Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Davis, Kendal, and Rhodes 2023: 21). Example footnote reference: 35 Davis, Kendal, and Rhodes 2023: 21. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) This title is distributed on behalf of MHRA by Ingram’s. Booksellers and libraries can order direct from Ingram by setting up a free ipage® Account: click here for more. Permanent link to this title: www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Erasmus-in-English-1523-1584-Volume-II-2 www.mhra.org.uk/publications/tst-26-2 |
