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In this biography, Leon Halkin reconstructs Erasmus's life. He portrays a man who was denounced as a heretic in his own lifetime, but remains of interest and relevance today. A contemporary of Columbus, Luther and Rabelais, Erasmus was both a child of the Middle Ages and one of the founders of the modern world. Born in Rotterdam in 1466, he died in Basel in 1536 having travelled widely and lived in Paris, Louvain, London and Rome. In addition to "In Praise of Folly and the Colloquies", he wrote numerous other works and, through them, took part in the great intellectual debates of humanism, pacifism and religious reform, so central to Renaissance thinking. This book suggests that Erasmus was arguably the most outstanding intellectual figure of the 16th century. Though in common perspective a liberal Catholic, he was also a refined anti-clerical satirist, rightly said to have injured monasticism and scholasticism even more deeply than Luther. For good or ill, Erasmus was distinctly a "liberator" of Western religion, one who attacked not merely absolutism and superstition within the Church, but also tyrannical and war-mongering secular rulers.

Table of Contents:
1. Childhood and Youth. 2. A Humanist in the Monastery. 3. The Hard Apprenticeship of Freedom. 4. Paris, The Attractions and Burdens of a Tutorship. 5. England, A Second Homeland. 6. Paris and Louvain, From the Adages to the Panegyric. 7. An Introduction to the Devout Life: The Handbook of the Christian Soldier. 8. Italy and the Return to the Sources. 9. A Religious Pamphlet: The Praise of Folly. 10. From the Foundations of the Abundant Style to The Education of the Christian Prince. 11. The New Testament. 12. The Age of Gold. 13. From Louvain to Antwerp via Basel and Cologne. 14. Polemics at Louvain and Relaxation at Anderlecht. 15. Erasmus and Luther: The Clash of Two Reforms. 16. Settled in Basel. 17. Basel: The Daily Round of Work. 18. The Colloquies : Chronicle of an Era. 19. From The Institution of Marriage to the Ciceronian. 20. Christ Served First. 21. Freiburg. A Voluntary Exile. 22. Freiburg. The Final Harvest. 23. Return to Basel. Farewells. 24. The Personality of Erasmus. 25. Appraisal of a Life's Work: Literature, Peace, Philosophy of Christ. 26. The Erasmian Message: From the Critique of Christianity to Critical Christianity.

About the Author :
Leon Halkin is President of the International Renaissance Foundation.

Review :
"Leon Halkin provides a wonderfully vivid and richly textured portrait of this great humanist." Le Quotidien de Paris "A fine biography, meticulous, detailed, reserved in it judgements ... one that brings Erasmus among us once again, and in these pages he emerges as he must have seemed in life." The Times "The best one-volume study of Erasmus in this period." Sixteenth Century Journal "This biography is perhaps the best available in English. It is meticulous and detailed with a judgement on Erasmus that is grounded in a fine grasp of the corpus of his writings. The author conveys the relevance of Erasmus's writings to the world today. For those teaching this period for A level, this book is a must." Teaching History


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780631193883
  • Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Blackwell Publishers
  • Edition: New edition
  • Language: French
  • Sub Title: A Critical Biography
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 063119388X
  • Publisher Date: 15 May 1994
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 229 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 560 gr


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