Stalin’s Library: A Dictator and His Books
Book Info
- Author
- Geoffrey Roberts
- Year
- Pages
- 259
- Acquired
- I have read this book. According to my records, I completed it on .
- A hardcover copy of this book is currently in my home library.
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus was a Dutch theologian and philosopher in the 1500s.
Something that’s “fulsome” has a lot of some characteristic. It can also mean “overdone,” and is commonly used to mean “too much praise.”
The source is from an ancient Greek word meaning something like: “large assembly to honor a god.”
This refers to any authority structure that consists of three people. Apparently this has been so common throughout history that it has its own word. It’s Latin for “three men.”