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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Biographies Biography |
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Named Person: | Desiderius Erasmus |
Material Type: | Document, Government publication |
Document Type: | Book, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Johan Huizinga; G N Clark |
ISBN: | 0691612277 9780691612270 0691008019 9780691008011 1400858070 9781400858071 |
OCLC Number: | 1241818951 |
Language Note: | English. |
Notes: | Originally published: Erasmus. New York : Scribner, 1924. Translation of: Erasmus. |
Description: | 1 online resource (311 pages) : illustrations. |
Contents: | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE / Clark, G. N. -- I. CHILDHOOD AND EARLY YOUTH, 1466-88 -- II. IN THE MONASTERY, 1488-95 -- III. THE UNIVERSITY OF PARIS, I495-9 -- IV. FIRST STAY IN ENGLAND, 1499 -- 1500 -- V. ERASMUS AS A HUMANIST -- VI. THEOLOGICAL ASPIRATIONS, 15OI -- VII.YEARS OF TROUBLE LOUVAIN, PARIS, ENGLAND, 1502-6 -- VIII. IN ITALY, 1506-9 -- IX. THE PRAISE OP FOLLY -- X. THIRD STAY IN ENGLAND, 1509-14 -- XI. A LIGHT OF THEOLOGY, 1514-16 -- XII. ERASMUS'S MIND -- XIII. ERASMUS'S MIND (continued) -- XIV. ERASMUS'S CHARACTER -- XV. AT LOUVAIN, 1517-18 -- XVI. FIRST YEARS OF THE REFORMATION -- XVII. ERASMUS AT BASLE, I 5 2 I -- 9 -- XVIII. CONTROVERSY WITH LUTHER AND GROWING CONSERVATISM, 1524-6 -- XIX. AT WAR WITH HUMANISTS AND REFORMERS, 1528-9 -- XX. LAST YEARS -- XXI. CONCLUSION -- SELECTED LETTERS OF ERASMUS -- List of Illustrations/ Index of Names -- Backmatter |
Series Title: | Princeton Legacy Library, 452 |
Other Titles: | Erasmus. |
Responsibility: | Johan Huizinga. |
Abstract:
Johan Huizinga had a special sympathy for the complex, withdrawn personality of Erasmus and for his advocacy of intellectual and spiritual balance in a quarrelsome age. This biography is a classic work on the sixteenth-century scholar/humanist. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology t
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