Desiderius Erasmus: 41 books
by Desiderius Erasmus, John Grant
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
This sixth of seven volumes devoted to the Adages in the Collected Works of Erasmus completes the translation and annotation of the more than 4000 proverbs gathered and commented on by Erasmus in his Adagiorum Chiliades (Thousands of Adages, usually known more simply as the Adagia). This volume’s...
The New Testament Scholarship of Erasmus
An introduction with Erasmus' Preface and Ancillary Writings
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
Erasmus produced his five editions of the New Testament in Greek and Latin and his Paraphrases on the Gospels and Epistles almost contemporaneously with the tumultuous events that accompanied the beginnings of the Reformation in Europe. At the same time, his scholarship was a signal illustration of...
The Correspondence of Erasmus
Letters 2082 to 2203
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
This volume contains the surviving correspondence of Erasmus for the first seven months of 1529. For nearly eight years he had lived happily and productively in Basel. In the winter of 1528-9, however, the Swiss version of the Lutheran Reformation triumphed in the city, destroying the liberal-reformist...
The Correspondence of Erasmus
Letters 2204-2356 (August 1529-July 1530)
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
The letters in this volume reflect Erasmus’ anxiety about the endemic warfare in Western Europe, the advance of the Ottoman Turks into Europe, and the increasing threat of armed conflict between Catholics and Protestants in Germany. Unable and unwilling to attend the Diet of Augsburg (June–November...
Erasmus
Life of a humanist
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
This book presents the history of Erasmus, an European humanist; and his essay against war.
"With Erasmus a new period opens. Two things broadly distinguish him, as a scholar, from the men before and after him. First, he was not only a refined humanist, writing for the fastidious few, and prizing...
by Desiderius Erasmus
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Erasmus yearned to make the New Testament an effective instrument of reform in society, church, and everyday life, and to this end he composed the Paraphrases, in which the words of Holy Scripture provide the core of a text that was vastly expanded to embrace the reforming “philosophy of Christ.”...
Lof en blaam
lof van het huwelijk ; lof van de geneeskunde ; lof der zotheid ; brief aan Maarten van Dor ; Julius buiten de hemelpoort
Language: Dutch
Release Date: December 21, 2016
Erasmus van Rotterdam (1466 - 1536) was een wereldburger, die vanuit Parijs, Oxford, Leuven, Venetie of Bazel altijd zijn medemens wilde opvoeden. Als overtuigd humanist hield hij zijn publiek het beste uit de Oudheid voor, maar wel in het licht van het christendom: Erasmus wilde zijn tijdgenoten...
by Desiderius Erasmus, Martin Luther
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Desiderius Eramsus (1466/9-1536) was the most renowned scholar of his age, a celebrated humanist and Classicist, and the first teacher of Greek at Cambridge. An influential figure in the Protestant Reformation, though without ever breaking from the Church himself, he satirised both human folly and...
by Desiderius Erasmus
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1993
The final two volumes in the CWE contain an edition and translation of Erasmus's poetry. For Erasmus scholars this work affords the first opportunity to evaluate and analyse Erasmus' poems in English. And for those interested in Renaissance and Reformation poetry in general, these offer an intriguing...
by Desiderius Erasmus
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
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.
Erasmus’ Annotations began as marginal comments in his own copy of the New Testament and were subsequently...
by Desiderius Erasmus, Dean Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2008
Erasmus yearned to make the Bible an effective instrument of reform in society, church, and everyday life. To this end, he composed the Paraphrases, in which the words of Holy Scripture provide the core of a text vastly expanded to embrace the reforming 'philosophy of Christ.' Matthew was Erasmus's...
by Desiderius Erasmus, Denis L. Drysdall
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
Among the most important of Erasmus’ contributions to Christian humanism were his Greek text, new Latin translation, and annotations of the New Testament, an implicit challenge to the authority of the Vulgate and one that provoked numerous responses. This volume of the Collected Works contains translations...
Verweerschriften
De spons ; De Ciceroniaan ; Antwoord aan prins Alberto Pio van Carpi
Language: Dutch
Release Date: December 21, 2016
Verweerschriften – je zou ook kunnen zeggen: halve polemieken. Erasmus dacht duidelijk dat de aanval de beste verdediging was. Met kracht en agressie stelt hij zich teweer tegen zeer verschillende tegenstanders. Dat hij van vele kanten werd aangevallen is niet vreemd: in de jaren twintig van de...
The Correspondence of Erasmus
Letters 2357 to 2471
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
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), at which the first of many attempts to achieve a negotiated settlement of the religious division in Germany came to a rancorous...