Erasmus: The Education of a Christian Prince with the Panegyric for Archduke Philip of Austria

by Erasmus

Book Overview

This is a new student edition of Erasmus' crucial treatise on political theory and also contains a new, excerpted translation from his Panegyric. The Education of a Christian Prince is one of the most important advice-to-princes texts published in the Renaissance and was dedicated to Charles V. It is a strongly pacifist work in which Erasmus sought to ensure that the prince governed justly and benevolently. This edition also includes an original introduction,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521588111
• ISBN13: 9780521588119
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 181 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Intresting protrayal of Humanists Ideas

The Education of A Christian prince is qutie intresesting and really gives you a sense of how the Renaissance was and kinda what people were thinking know that they didn't follow the church so strictly and that the were free to write their ideas and with the help of the printing press were able to spread the ideas like wildfire to the rest of Europe through books such as this one.