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| Name: |
Sebastian Brant | | Birth Date: |
1457 | | Death Date: |
1521 | | Place of Birth: |
Strassburg, Germany | | Nationality: |
German | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
writer, author |
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 Biography of Sebastian Brant
360 words, approx. 1 pages
 The German writer Sebastian Brant (1457-1521) was the author of the "Narrenschiff," or "Ship of Fools," one of the most famous secular works in European letters. Sebastian Brant, born in Strassburg, lost his father as a child and was reared by his... summary from source:
 Biography of Sebastian Brant
4,234 words, approx. 14 pages
 The name Sebastian Brant is inextricably tied to Das Narrenschiff (The Ship of Fools, 1494), by far his best-known work. The identities of author and work are so interdependent that literary histories regularly ignore the rest of Brant's not... 
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Sebastian Brant Information
462 words, approx. 2 pages
Sebastian Brant (also Brandt) (1457 – May 10, 1521), German humanist and satirist, was born in Strassburg. He studied at Basel, took the degree of doctor of law in 1489, and for some time held a professorship of jurisprudence there. Returning to...
  Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Barbara Halporn
14,274 words, approx. 48 pages
In the following essay, Halporn discusses Brant's work as an editor of texts used by law students, which, the critic asserts, he did in part because he believed in making the law accessible to more people so that citizens could serve their own interests more effectively.
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Critical Essay by Peter Skrine
12,362 words, approx. 41 pages
In the following essay, Skrine analyzes The Ship of Fools as a commentary on the biblical Book of Ecclesiastes.
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Critical Essay by Edwin H. Zeydel
9,277 words, approx. 31 pages
In the following essays, Zeydel examines Brant's poetical exercises and broadsides, which the critic argues reveal similar religious and social concerns as those presented in his Latin prose and The Ship of Fools. He also assesses Brant's place in literary history as he presents the principal aspects of Brant's views and works.
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