Erasmus On His Times

Author : Desiderius Erasmus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521094139
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Erasmus on His Times written by Desiderius Erasmus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Adagia of Erasmus (surely the original best-seller) was first published in 1500. It went through numerous impressions and ten major revisions in the course of Erasmus's life. Its influence was incalculable. It disseminated humanist learning and humanist attitudes among the new reading public to such an extent that it can be claimed as one of the books that contributed most to form the European mind. The adages were proverbs or popular sayings taken from classical literature. Many are part of the common stock of our speech today. A necessary evil, cupboard love, a rare bird, an iron in the fire, are all to be found in the Adagia. Erasmus refers each to its source; then follows with a commentary on the meaning and with whatever ideas and personal observations arose from it. The book's influence waned after his death.

Author : Desiderius Erasmus
Publisher : Academic Resources Corp
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tudor Translations of the Colloquies of Erasmus (1536-1584) written by Desiderius Erasmus and published by Academic Resources Corp. This book was released on 1972 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late at night, Robert goes to the circus and finds a fabulous balloon machine, with which he creates unusual balloons.

Author : Érasme
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802048745
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Adages of Erasmus written by Érasme and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This annotated selection of 116 proverbs, which includes all the longer essays, is based on the translation in the Collected Works of Erasmus."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Johan Huizinga
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400858070
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Erasmus and the Age of Reformation written by Johan Huizinga and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Desiderius Erasmus
Publisher : Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780865162136
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Erasmus and His Times written by Desiderius Erasmus and published by Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers. This book was released on 1951-01-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These letters to and from Erasmus introduce students to a lively form of Latin and an exciting period of history. The book includes biographical material, notes, and vocabulary.

Author : Desiderius Erasmus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Praise of Folly written by Desiderius Erasmus and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Barker
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789144507
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Erasmus of Rotterdam written by William Barker and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English-language popular biography of widely influential northern Renaissance scholar Erasmus of Rotterdam in twenty years. Erasmus of Rotterdam came from an obscure background but, through remarkable perseverance, skill, and independent vision, became a powerful and controversial intellectual figure in Europe in the early sixteenth century. He was known for his vigorous opposition to war, intolerance, and hypocrisy, and at the same time for irony and subtlety that could confuse his friends as well as his opponents. His ideas about language, society, scholarship, and religion influenced the rise of the Reformation and had a huge impact on the humanities, and that influence continues today. This book shows how an independent textual scholar was able, by the power of the printing press and his wits, to attain both fame and notoriety. Drawing on the immense wealth of recent scholarship devoted to Erasmus, Erasmus of Rotterdam is the first English-language popular biography of this crucial thinker in twenty years.

Author : Michael Massing
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062870122
Total Pages : 1340 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fatal Discord written by Michael Massing and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 1340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deeply textured dual biography and fascinating intellectual history that examines two of the greatest minds of European history—Desiderius Erasmus and Martin Luther—whose heated rivalry gave rise to two enduring, fundamental, and often colliding traditions of philosophical and religious thought. Erasmus of Rotterdam was the leading figure of the Northern Renaissance. At a time when Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael were revolutionizing Western art and culture, Erasmus was helping to transform Europe’s intellectual and religious life, developing a new design for living for a continent rebelling against the hierarchical constraints of the Roman Church. When in 1516 he came out with a revised edition of the New Testament based on the original Greek, he was hailed as the prophet of a new enlightened age. Today, however, Erasmus is largely forgotten, and the reason can be summed up in two words: Martin Luther. As a young friar in remote Wittenberg, Luther was initially a great admirer of Erasmus and his critique of the Catholic Church, but while Erasmus sought to reform that institution from within, Luther wanted a more radical transformation. Eventually, the differences between them flared into a bitter rivalry, with each trying to win over Europe to his vision. In Fatal Discord, Michael Massing seeks to restore Erasmus to his proper place in the Western tradition. The conflict between him and Luther, he argues, forms a fault line in Western thinking—the moment when two enduring schools of thought, Christian humanism and evangelical Christianity, took shape. A seasoned journalist who has reported from many countries, Massing here travels back to the early sixteenth century to recover a long-neglected chapter of Western intellectual life, in which the introduction of new ways of reading the Bible set loose social and cultural forces that helped shatter the millennial unity of Christendom and whose echoes can still be heard today. Massing concludes that Europe has adopted a form of Erasmian humanism while America has been shaped by Luther-inspired individualism.

Author : James D. Tracy
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520324420
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Erasmus of the Low Countries written by James D. Tracy and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few historical figures have been more important in modeling the ideal of impartial critical scholarship than Erasmus of Rotterdam (1469-1536). Yet his critical scholarship, though beholden to no one, was not dispassionate. James Tracy shows how Erasmus the scholar sought through his writings to promote the moral and religious renewal of Christian society. Tracy finds the genesis of the humanist's notion of a "Christian republic" of pious and learned individuals in his "Burgundian," or Low Countries, roots. Erasmus's vision of reform, Tracy argues, sprung from a humanist tradition focusing on the importance of teaching (doctrina), a tradition from which Erasmus departed in his optimism about human nature and his deep suspicion of the powers that be. Amid the storms of Reformation controversy, he pruned back the "dissimulation" by which he had thought to convey different meanings to different readers, yet in the end he could not control the way his words were read. If Erasmus's scholarly ideal carries an enduring fascination, so too does his dilemma as a man of circumspection who would also be a reformer. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1966.

Author : Louis Bouyer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Erasmus and His Times written by Louis Bouyer and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Reveals the dimensions of the philosophical and theological teachings of Erasmus in the light of his age and of his personality." -- Dust jacket.