The well-tempered career: Erasmus on the emotional health of scholars: 2018 Erasmus Birthday Lecture

Yasmin Haskell

doi:10.1163/18749275-04202001

The well-tempered career: Erasmus on the emotional health of scholars: 2018 Erasmus Birthday Lecture

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This lecture explores Erasmus’ beliefs about the life of the healthy Christian humanist, from boy student to mature scholar, through the prism of ‘history of emotions’. It appraises Erasmus’ place in the longer history of scholarly hygiene, a tradition of writing about the physical, psychological, and spiritual health of scholars. What for example does Erasmus have to say about those conditions with which early modern intellectuals were so frequently associated, viz.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	101-121
Number of pages	21
Journal	Erasmus Studies
Volume	42
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1163/18749275-04202001
Publication status	Published - 2022
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Erasmus
Gerard Nicolaas Heerkens
hypochondria
Malachias Geiger
Marsilio Ficino
melancholy
passions for learning
Robert Burton
Samuel-Auguste Tissot
scholarly hygiene

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