Tuesday, August 09, 2016
Humanists
Barbara C. Bowen, Enter Rabelais, Laughing (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1998), p. 69:
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The humanists most read today are of course those, like Erasmus, Thomas More, and Rabelais, who were also deeply interested in humanity as a subject, but we should not therefore assume that all humanists thought of man as their central subject; many were far more interested in restoring lost iota subscripts, or in explaining anomalous uses of the past perfect subjunctive.
