Erasmus becomes a Netherlander

Bejczy, István P.

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“…67 While huizinga and other biographers also mention that erasmus became estranged from his native country early in life, they discuss his ambivalence towards his ancestral roots and point out that 'national identity' was anyway a complex and confusing issue in erasmus' day. 68 nonetheless, Zweig casts erasmus as the icon of supranationalism: 'a remarkable symbol for a man who was to become a supranational [..] was that erasmus had no mother country, no home. in a certain sense, he was born in void space' (32).…”

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Writing European Lives. Stefan Zweig as a Biographer of Verhaeren, Rolland and Erasmus

Rensen

2015

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The Jewish-austrian writer Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was a passionate biographer who wrote about the lives of many influential people in european literature and history. in some of these biographies the genre is consciously employed as a vehicle to express an idea of europe and foster a sense of belonging to a common european culture. his life stories of emile Verhaeren (1910), romain rolland (1921) and erasmus (1934) illustrate particularly well how Zweig portrayed artists as emblematic europeans. as a biographer, he mediated across cultures in order to highlight the transnational elements of their lives that link disparate cultures in europe. as the practice of writing european lives affected Zweig's sense of belonging to europe, the portraits of Verhaeren, rolland and erasmus anticipated some of the central themes of his self-narration in Die Welt von Gestern. Erinnerungen eines Europäers (1942).

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Writing European Lives. Stefan Zweig as a Biographer of Verhaeren, Rolland and Erasmus

Rensen

2015

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“…Other premodern states incorporated a mass literature promoted by an intellectual class, Gellner's ''clerisy;'' self-conscious differentiation between Self and the foreign Other; and institutions of mass socialization, such as a national church. England, for example, exhibits all of the ''national'' characteristics by the sixteenth century (Hastings 1997), far before it could be considered ''modern,'' while the Dutch were clearly nationally conscious during the time of Erasmus (Bejczy 1997). Some states exhibited other characteristics of the modern, largely institutionalist definition of the nation prior to achieving a level of advancement concomitant with more studied exemplars of nationalism.…”

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Spectacle and Space in the Creation of Premodern and Modern Polities: Toward a Mixed Ontology of Collective Identity1

Acuff

2012

International Political Sociology

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Acuff, Jonathan M. (2012) Spectacle and Space in the Creation of Premodern and Modern Polities: Toward a Mixed Ontology of Collective Identity. International Political Sociology, doi: 10.1111/j.1749‐5687.2012.00155.x  © 2012 International Studies Association Much recent work on culture and identity in International Relations (IR) has emphasized the causal role of ideas and institutions. I articulate a broader socialization process for collective identities via material elements of identity construction. I argue that combined with rituals and linked to myths and symbols, material representations of culture such as monuments and architecture form the collective memories of polities in a similar manner to the socializing effects of educational institutions and vernacular literature. I illustrate these claims with a comparison of materiality and praxis elements of identity construction in imperial Rome and late‐modern Austria–Hungary, with concluding analysis of the role of material culture in the future of “European” identity in the EU.

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The Cosmopolitanism of The Adages: The Classical and Christian Legacies of Erasmus’ Hermeneutics of Accommodation

Wolfe¹

2013

Cosmopolitanism and the Middle Ages

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Erasmus becomes a Netherlander

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Writing European Lives. Stefan Zweig as a Biographer of Verhaeren, Rolland and Erasmus

Writing European Lives. Stefan Zweig as a Biographer of Verhaeren, Rolland and Erasmus

Spectacle and Space in the Creation of Premodern and Modern Polities: Toward a Mixed Ontology of Collective Identity1

The Cosmopolitanism of The Adages: The Classical and Christian Legacies of Erasmus’ Hermeneutics of Accommodation

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