Erasmus ranges from light-hearted jibes to vehement denunciation of the theologians and churchmen, monastic life and the condition of the Church, and then seriously expounds the virtues... Læs mere
Many of the letters in this volume, which covers the period August 1530 to March 1531, reflect Erasmus' anxieties over events at the Diet of Augsburg (June-November 1530).
A satire on the pretensions of Erasmus's contemporaries in the Church and philosophy
This translation reveals the annotations as a rich storehouse of methodological discussion and semantic analysis, and a fascinating witness to the theological debates of the early sixteenth century.
This volume contains the first translation of Erasmus' response to two of his fiercest Spanish critics.
This Norton Critical Edition provides a wide selection of Erasmus's writings, translated from the Latin into fresh, modern English.
Paraphrase on Luke 1-10 contains the first half of Erasmus's Paraphrase on Luke the second half of which appeared in this series in 2003 - and completes the set of translations of the Paraphrasesinto English.
Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) was a Dutch humanist, scholar, and social critic, and one of the most important figures of the Renaissance. The Praise of Folly is... Læs mere
Volume 58 in the Collected Works of Erasmus series contains, for the first time, the English translation of Erasmus' Annotations on Paul's Epistles to the Galatians and Ephesians.
Clarence H. Miller's translation of "The Praise of Folly", based on the definitive Latin text, seeks to echo Erasmus' own lively style while retaining the nuances of the original... Læs mere