Desiderius Erasmus: 41 books

Erasmus' Familiar Colloquies grew from a small collection of phrases, sentences, and snatches of dialogue written in Paris about 1497 to help his private pupils improve their command of Latin. Twenty years later the material was published by Johann Froben (Basel 1518). It was an immediate success...

As part of his effort to make the Bible an effective instrument of reform in society, church, and everyday life, Erasmus composed the Paraphrases. In these series of texts, the Holy Scripture provides the core of a work that is vastly expanded to embrace the reforming "philosophy of Christ"...

Assembled for the young Prince William of Cleves, Erasmus’ Apophthegmata consists of thousands of sayings and anecdotes collected from Greek and Latin literature for the moral education of the future ruler. Betty I. Knott and Elaine Fantham’s two-volume annotated translation of the aphorisms and...

Erasmus of Rotterdam (c. 1466-1536) is one of the greatest figures of the Renaissance humanist movement, which abandoned medieval pieties in favour of a rich new vision of the individual's potential. Praise of Folly, written to amuse his friend Sir Thomas More, is Erasmus's best-known work. Its dazzling...

Waarom vocht Erasmus, die streefde naar eenheid binnen de Kerk, zoveel theologische geschillen uit? Hij was een modern theoloog, die wilde afrekenen met de middeleeuwse manier van theologie bedrijven, iets wat hij ook in de Lof der Zotheid deed. Dat leverde hem vijanden op, die bijvoorbeeld zijn werken...

In het derde deel van het Verzameld werk komt de opvoedkundige kant van Erasmus aan bod, in vijf meesterlijke werken: Etiquette, Leren studeren, De opvoeding van kinderen, De opvoeding van de christenvorst, Tegen de barbaren. Erasmus heeft naam gemaakt als filoloog en theoloog, als een te duchten...

Erasmus was een verwoed briefschrijver, met contacten in heel Europa. Al tijdens zijn leven werden zijn brieven voortdurend gekopieerd, uitgegeven en gretig gelezen. Voor Erasmus was een goede brief een volmaakt vormgegeven geheel, steeds aangepast aan de omstandigheden en persoonlijkheid van de verzender...

Erasmus of Rotterdam wrote the essay The Praise of Folly during a week at Sir Thomas More's estate in Bucklersbury. He later refined and extended the piece. In it he personifies Folly as a god, whose companions are likewise-personified sins and human weaknesses. His work criticizes the Catholic Church,...

Erasmus was the most facetious man, and the greatest critic of his age. He carried on a reformation in learning at the same time he advanced that of religion; and promoted a purity of style as well as simplicity of worship. This drew on him the hatred of the ecclesiastics, who were no less bigotted...

The goddess Folly gives a speech, praising herself and explaining how much humanity benefits from her services, from politicians to philosophers, aristocrats, schoolteachers, poets, lawyers, theologians, monarchs and the clergy. At the same time, her discourse provides a satire of Erasmus's world, poking...

Starting off by teaching about the heinousness of war, Erasmus convicts us all about the tendencies of our violent and sinful nature in the face of God’s love and justice in a world consumed by war. Next he takes us on a journey showing what benefit heresy and falsehood have for strengthening the church and making us who believe in God realize what is truth and what is not.

After the longe despayred fruitfulnes of thy wyfe, I hearsay thou art made a father, and that wyth a man chylde, whyche sheweth in it selfe a meruelous towardnes, and euen to be lyke the parentes: and that if so be we maye by such markes and tokens pronosticate anye thyng, maye seeme to promise perfite...

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