{"product_id":"erasmus-miniatures","title":"Erasmus' Miniatures","description":"There is hardly a sixteenth-century genre that Erasmus did not try, often ambitiously. He made big books from little things: proverbs, anecdotes, metaphors, quotations, and textual notes. The works that have withstood the tests of time are satires and edited collections: \u003ci\u003ePraise of Folly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJulius exclusus\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eAdagia\u003c\/i\u003e, letters, and colloquies. There are no better introductions to Erasmus than these, and they share a common emphasis on variety. \u003ci\u003eErasmus' Miniatures\u003c\/i\u003e examines his lifelong interest in small genres and his use of them, inserting them into larger works or gradually amassing them in books of a thousand pages. They were written to teach Latin and inculcate Christian values, and remain attractive as the most intimate expressions of his thoughts, moods, hopes, and terrors.","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50021911036154,"sku":"9789004710702","price":92.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0840\/1253\/1962\/files\/imageloader_6d5baf8c-5c47-41a8-91cf-b58a104353a5.jpg?v=1786139453","url":"https:\/\/mindsourcebooks.com\/products\/erasmus-miniatures","provider":"Mind Source Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}