Ruin and Utopia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20145385 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David W Baker (0000-0001-7349-7554, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 40 (Number 155) |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 49-66 |
| Publication date | 2003-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Moreana (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-8105 • E-ISSN: 2398-4961 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/more.2003.40.3.4 |
| OpenAlex | W2511611626 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 1 |
The author examines Utopia in the light of antiquarian exchanges between More and Jerome Busleyden. More visited Busleyden at his home in Mechlin during the weeks when enforced leisure allowed him to write Utopia. More praised Busleyden’s collection of ancient Roman coins in an epigram, and he celebrated the antiquities of the house in a letter to Erasmus. Busleyden in turn alludes to his and More’s shared antiquarian interests in his prefatory letter to Utopia. The two humanists’ ruminations on the ruins of past empires highlight the paradox of Utopia being an antiquity without ruins, and they provide an oblique commentary on the imperial aspirations of sixteenth-century monarchs
Art · Art history · Erasmus · Humanism · Literature · The Renaissance · Theology · Utopia · Classics · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,06 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2009 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |