https://earlymoderneurope.hist.sites.carleton.edu/files/original/68fa359a87e0f5aeffb3e30cc3f31593.jpg ea2679a43a6f449fef3fa2c09675d8e1 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Portrait of Erasmus Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1535 Description An account of the resource After 1450, humanism began to spread from its roots in Florence -- long regarded as a hub for scholars -- to Vienna, Heidelberg, and the royal seats of England, France, and Spain (Wiesner-Hanks, 140). Scholars traveled all over Europe, carrying their ideas with them, but more permanent humanist academies and social groups were also established. Desiderius Erasmus, a prominent humanist with an appreciation for Plato and the classics, saw his works circulate throughout Europe in this fashion. Though Erasmus hailed from the Netherlands, his works were an important influence on English thinking during the Renaissance. One of these traceable links involves English humanist Thomas More, with whom Erasmus regularly corresponded. Wiesner-Hanks asserts that at the height of the humanist movement, travel to Italy was unnecessary because up-and-coming scholars such as More could learn about the classics in their home countries. This lends some sense of scope to the humanist movement during More’s lifetime, which spanned from 1478 to 1535 (Wiesner-Hanks, 141). Due in part to the invention of the printing press and the machination of humanist writers themselves, the basic tenets of humanism (the emphasis on revisiting the classics, revising political theory, and propagating the liberal arts in education) were able to cross country borders. More learned Latin without leaving his home country but saw his works circulated outside of it, as Erasmus did (Wiesner-Hanks, 141). Now regarded as one of the most well-known English humanists, his 1516 novel Utopia speaks to this very philosophy in its questioning of political theory and satiric undertones. More’s position relative to the “center” of humanist action at the time is a testament to the spread of ideas. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Photo: Rijksmuseum (https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/SK-A-166) Wiesner-Hanks, Merry. Early Modern Europe: 1450-1789. Cambridge University Press, 2013. Print. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Public domain. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Cassidy Bins