Erasmus of Rotterdam
Erasmus of Rotterdam

Author: William Barker

Publisher: Reaktion Books

Published: 2021-11-26

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 1789144515

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The first English-language popular biography of widely influential northern Renaissance scholar Erasmus of Rotterdam in twenty years. Erasmus of Rotterdam came from an obscure background but, through remarkable perseverance, skill, and independent vision, became a powerful and controversial intellectual figure in Europe in the early sixteenth century. He was known for his vigorous opposition to war, intolerance, and hypocrisy, and at the same time for irony and subtlety that could confuse his friends as well as his opponents. His ideas about language, society, scholarship, and religion influenced the rise of the Reformation and had a huge impact on the humanities, and that influence continues today. This book shows how an independent textual scholar was able, by the power of the printing press and his wits, to attain both fame and notoriety. Drawing on the immense wealth of recent scholarship devoted to Erasmus, Erasmus of Rotterdam is the first English-language popular biography of this crucial thinker in twenty years.

Erasmus
Erasmus

Author: Leon E. Halkin

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Published: 1994-08-15

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9780631193883

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Erasmus was arguably the most outstanding intellectual figure of the sixteenth century. Through his numerous writings he took part in the great debates of the Renaissance: humanism, pacifism and religious reform. In this biography Leon Halkin meticulously reconstructs his life and demonstrates the enduring relevance of his writings today.

Exploiting Erasmus
Exploiting Erasmus

Author: Gregory D. Dodds

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 0802099009

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Exploiting Erasmus examines the legacy of Erasmus in England from the mid-sixteenth century to the overthrow of James II in 1688 and studies the various ways in which his works were received, manipulated, and used in religious controversies that threatened both church and state.

The Essential Erasmus
The Essential Erasmus

Author: Desiderius Erasmus

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1964-05-01

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 0452009723

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In his own day a center of controversy, in the four hundred years since his death known too often solely as an apostle of mockery and irreverence, Erasmus can be seen today in a new light—as a humanist whose concen is at once contemporary and Christian. The Essential Erasmus is the first single volume in English to show the full spectrum of this Renaissance man's thought, which is no less profound because it is expressed with the grace, wit, and ironic detachment only a great writer can achieve. Contains the full text of In Praise of Folly

Praise of Folly
Praise of Folly

Author: Desiderius Erasmus

Publisher: Alma Classics

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781847490100

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Erasmus
Erasmus

Author: Cornelis Augustijn

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 1995-12-01

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 1442654333

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Erasmus: His Life, Works, and Influence is a comprehensive introduction to Erasmus's life, works, and thoughts. It integrates the best scholarship of the past twenty years and will appeal to undergraduates in all areas of cultural history as well as Erasmus specialists.

The Adages of Erasmus
The Adages of Erasmus

Author: Érasme

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13: 9780802048745

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This annotated selection of 116 proverbs, which includes all the longer essays, is based on the translation in the Collected Works of Erasmus."--BOOK JACKET.