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This witty, influential work by one of the greatest scholars of the Renaissance satirizes the shortcomings of the upper classes and religious institutions of the time. The most effective of all Erasm …

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 perhaps his best-known work. Original …

The Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus was a hugely influential author of the Renaissance. His prolific and diverse writings made him a contentious figure, often inciting controversy for his criticism …

*** Premium Ebook *** Under the pleasing mask of Folly, Erasmus has uttered truths like no one before him. Armed with the weapons of reason and satire, his description of the bigotry and superstition …

In Praise of Folly is an essay written in Latin in 1509 by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam and first printed in 1511. The essay was inspired by De Triumpho Stultitiae, written by the Italian humanist …

Erasmus considers war to be an unmitigated evil, which should only be turned to as a last resort. Erasmus asserts the pacificist democratic argument which is popular in the Age of Enlightenment and w …

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 …

In Praise of Folly (Latin: Stultitiae Laus or Moriae Encomium—sometimes translated as In Praise of More; Greek title: Morias enkomion; Dutch title: Lof der Zotheid) is an essay written in Latin in 15 …

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. …

At the onset of his hugely successful satire of medieval European society, Dutch scholar Desiderius Erasmus invokes the goddess Folly, daughter of Youth and Wealth, who was raised by Drunkenness and …

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 a …

After spending several months in England, Erasmus returned to Paris in the winter of 1500 and set about compiling a small anthology of classical proverbs known as the Adagiorum collectanea. This mode …

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 pr …

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 pr …

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 th …

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 th …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 Cath …

Among Erasmus of Rotterdam’s many influential treatises on theology during the early Reformation, Exomologesis (1524; revised 1530) and Ecclesiastes (1535) stand out as two of his most significant. E …

Erasmus’ Adagia has been called ‘one of the world’s biggest bedside books, ‘ and certainly the more than 4000 proverbs and maxims gathered and commented on by Erasmus, sometimes in a few lines and so …

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 …

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. Twent …

Spanning the period of 1523 to 1534, the compositions in Volume 78 of the Collected Works of Erasmus detail Erasmus” theological disagreements with the Swiss and Upper German ”evangelicals” and th …

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 Cath …

Erasmus” Adagia has been called ”one of the world”s biggest bedside books, ” and certainly the more than 4000 proverbs and maxims gathered and commented on by Erasmus, sometimes in a few lines an …

This fifth of seven volumes on the Adages continues from where the Collected Works of Erasmus volume 34 left off and includes 900 more adages from III iv 1 to IV ii 100. The aim of the Adages volumes …

When Erasmus published the Adages, his monumental collection of proverbs, he wrote in the Introduction that ”a knowledge of proverbs contributes to a number of things, but to four especially: philos …

This is one of seven volumes that will contain the more than 4000 adages that Erasmus gathered and commented on, sometimes in a few lines and sometimes in full-scale essays. The notes identify the cl …

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 …

‘A knowledge of proverbs contributes to a number of things, ’ wrote Erasmus in his Introduction to the Adages, ‘but to four especially: philosophy, persuasiveness, grace and charm in speaking, and th …

This new volume of the CWE presents three of Erasmus” polemic works against Alberto Pio, Prince of Carpi. A leading diplomat of the period, patron of artists and humanists, and conservative Catholic …

In 1520, the reading public witnessed the eruption of a simmering conflict between Erasmus, the foremost advocate of the new biblical humanism, and Edward Lee, a younger scholar at the University of …

Volumes 71-84 of the Collected Works of Erasmus contain Erasmus” arguments with his numerous critics – English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian, both Catholic and Protestant, – on a range of th …

Erasmus” controversies with French, Italian, Spanish, and German critics on theological, social, philological, educational, and other matters are contained in volumes 71-84 of the Collected Works of …

Volumes 71-84 of the CWE contain Erasmus” controversies with a large number of critics on a host of issues, most of the main ones theological. Erasmus” Latin translation of the New Testament, a rev …

Erasmus” controversies with French, Italian, Spanish, and German critics on theological, social, philological, educational, and other matters are contained in volumes 71-84 of the Collected Works. C …

Between 1515 and 1533 Erasmus wrote commentaries on eleven psalms. His principal aim was, as in his Paraphrases, to contribute, through the exposition of the Bible, to the renewal of preaching and de …

Between 1515 and 1533 Erasmus wrote commentaries on eleven psalms, his only treatment of texts from the Old Testament. His principal aim was, as in his Paraphrases, to contribute, through the exposit …

This final volume in the Literary and Educational Writings contains diverse woks spanning a generation. They demonstrate Erasmus” skill in applying classical rhetoric to contemporary Christian needs …

These volumes are the first in a series containing works by Erasmus ”that concern literature and education”: interests which to him were scarcely separable. The aim of Erasmian education was a civi …

Erasmus was above all an educator, and his writings as a teacher and theorist give him a claim to be regarded as the greatest figure in the history of education since antiquity. By the decade of the …

Satire, as the concept was understood in the sisteenth century, covered any sort of commentary on personal or social behaviour or values. The six works collected in these two volumes are among the mo …

The Annotations of Erasmus are designed for those who wish to take the study of the Bible seriously. Erasmus himself declared as much: his Annotations were not written, he implied, to provide pleasan …

Erasmus yearned to make the Bible an effective instrument in the reform of society, church, and everyday life. He therefore composed Paraphrases in which the words of Holy Scripture provided the core …

Erasmus yearned to make the Bible an effective instrument in the reform of society, church, and the life of individuals in the turbulent world the sixteenth century. He therefore composed paraphrases …

Erasmus yearned to make the Bible 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 th …

Erasmus yearned to make the Bible an effective instrument in the reform of society, church, and the life of individuals in the turbulent world of the sixteenth century. He therefore composed paraphra …

Erasmus yearned to popularize the New Testament, to make the Bible and the understanding of Scripture available to everyone – to ‘the farmer, the tailor, the mason, prostitutes, pimps, and Turks, ’ i …

Erasmus yearned to make the Bible an effective instrument in the reform of society, church, and everyday life. He therefore composed paraphrases in which the words of Holy Scripture provided the core …

Of all the church Fathers, Erasmus preferred St Jerome, for in him he found the perfect combination of ”bonae litterae” and ”philosophia Christi, ” which were to become the two fundamental concep …

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 Engli …

The five pieces in this volume are among the twenty selected for inclusion in volumes 66-70 of the Collected Works of Erasmus, the series of spiritualia and pastoralia. Like many of the other works i …

The ten pieces in this volume are among the twenty selected for inclusion in volumes 66-70 of the Collected Works of Erasmus, the series of spiritualia and pastoralia. Like many of the other works in …

This is the first of five volumes to appear in the section of the CWE devoted to Erasmus” spiritualia, works of spirituality that include such aspects of religion as piety, theology, and the practic …

The tranquil world reflected in Erasmus’ early letters from Louvain gradually disintegrated in the years covered by Volume 7. In the letters of Volume 8, which spans the period of Erasmus’ last fifte …

The correspondence of Erasmus has never been completely translated into English, although it has long been acknowledged to be one of the most illuminating sources for the history of northern humanism …

At the beginning of this volume, Erasmus leaves Louvain to live in Basel. Weary from the many controversies reflected in the letters of the previous volumes, he is also anxious to see the annotations …

The period from April 1523 to December 1524 finds Erasmus still in Basel and still preoccupied above all with ‘the sorry business of Luther.‘ He knows that the efforts of his conservative Catholic de …

The correspondence of Erasmus has never been completely translated into English, although it has long been acknowledged to be one of the most illuminating sources for the history of northern humanism …

The Peasant”s War in Germany and his own ill-health combined to keep Erasmus confined to the city of Basel during 1525, but he was still able to maintain an active correspondence spanning all of Eur …

The letters in Volume 12 cover Erasmus” correspondence for all of 1526 and roughly the first quarter of 1527. This was a difficult period for Erasmus for various reasons, including two bouts of illn …

Volume 3 contains Erasmus” surviving correspondence from August 1514 to August 1516, including one letter by Erasmus never before published in a collection of his correspondence. There are one hundr …

The year that began in August 1515 was the annus mirabilis of Erasmus” career, the year, notably of the epistles of St Jerome and the first edition of his New Testament. In the months following, cov …

This volume covers the first ten months of Erasmus” residence at Louvain. He lived during this time in the College of the Lily, his position presitgious and secure. he was a member of the theologica …

This volume covers a number of significant events and issues in Erasmus” life and in the history of his times. He travels on horseback from Louvain to Basel to assist his publisher and friend Johann …

A painful time in Erasmus” life is reflected in this volume of letters. As the two volumes immediately previous to this one indicated, Erasmus” first two years in Louvain were agreeable, productive …

The predominant theme of the letters of 1528 is Erasmus” controversies with a variety of critics and opponents. The publication in March of the dialogue Ciceronianus, for example, provoked a huge up …

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 provide …

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 c …

Erasmus” humanistic approach to theology and biblical exegesis presented a shocking challenge to the theologians at the University of Paris, which had been dominated by scholastic theology for centu …

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 provide …

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 c …

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, howeve …

The letters in this volume cover Erasmus” correspondence from March to December 1527. These 129 letters centre primarily on Erasmus” continuing struggle with his Catholic critics, especially those …

Consisting of Erasmus” commentary on psalms 38, 83, and 14, this is the third and final volume of the Expositions of the Psalms in the Collected Works of Erasmus. Dating from the last years of Erasm …

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 beg …

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 beg …

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’ Annotation …

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’ Annotation …

These volumes are the first in a series containing works by Erasmus ‘that concern literature and education’: interests which to him were scarcely separable. The aim of Erasmian education was a civili …

This volume covers a number of significant events and issues in Erasmus’ life and in the history of his times. He travels on horseback from Louvain to Basel to assist his publisher and friend Johann …

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 …

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 …

Volume 18 in the Collected Works of Erasmus series covers the period from 1 April 1531 to 30 March 1532. The most persistent theme in the letters is the fear, to which Erasmus had long been prey, tha …

Volume 18 in the Collected Works of Erasmus series covers the period from 1 April 1531 to 30 March 1532. The most persistent theme in the letters is the fear, to which Erasmus had long been prey, tha …

Despite having enemies in the powerful Spanish religious orders, and being warned of the controversies that would arise, Erasmus published the fourth edition of his New Testament in 1527, resulting i …

Despite having enemies in the powerful Spanish religious orders, and being warned of the controversies that would arise, Erasmus published the fourth edition of his New Testament in 1527, resulting i …

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, howeve …

The letters in this volume cover Erasmus’ correspondence from March to December 1527. These 129 letters centre primarily on Erasmus’ continuing struggle with his Catholic critics, especially those in …

This sixteenth-century religious satire by a Renaissance critic and theologian is “a masterpiece of humor and wise irony” (Johan Huizinga, Dutch historian). At the onset of his hugely suc …

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 …

Dutch thinker and theologian Desiderius Erasmus played a key role in the development of humanism during the Renaissance and early modern periods. In Against War, Erasmus mounts a stunningly lucid and …

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 …

Dutch thinker and theologian Desiderius Erasmus played a key role in the development of humanism during the Renaissance and early modern periods. In Against War, Erasmus mounts a stunningly lucid and …

The Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus was the greatest scholar of the northern Renaissance, as well as the first editor of the New Testament. A classical scholar that wrote in a pure Latin style, Era …

A classic anti-war essay from the mid-1500s. Erasmus gives elegant arguments against war from both religious (Christian) and logical (economic, practical) points of view. He seems particularly alarme …

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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. …

The Praise of Folly is the most enduring and popular work of one of the greatest Renaissance humanists, Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam. Immensely popular in its own day, the work is a witty and ofte …

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.   The Praise of Folly is the most enduring and popular work of one of the greatest Renaissance humanists, D …

Erasmus’ services to a new way of learning took various forms. He wrote school-books, bringing out his view that boys were kept too long over grammar, and ought to begin reading some good author as s …

Erasmus’ services to a new way of learning took various forms. He wrote school-books, bringing out his view that boys were kept too long over grammar, and ought to begin reading some good author as s …

Desiderius Erasmus was a very human man. A humanist, who was no more humane than the rest of the wits and cynics of his time, there was in him a plenty of human weaknesses and uglinesses. Nevertheles …

Erasmus reached England after a stay in Italy early in the summer of 1510. Soon afterwards, in Thomas More’s house at Bucklersbury, he rapidly wrote his famous satire, the Encomium Moriae, or ‘Praise …

We get some sense of things which were moving deeply in Erasmus’ life from his ‘Manual of a Christian Knight.’ We find here a characteristic criticism of religious forms taking the place of religious …

This volume includes Erasmus’ correspondence for the months April 1532 to April 1533, a period in which he feared a religious civil war in Germany. In his desire to move somewhere far enough from Ger …

This volume includes Erasmus’ correspondence for the months April 1532 to April 1533, a period in which he feared a religious civil war in Germany. In his desire to move somewhere far enough from Ger …

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 a …

Considered one of the most important works of literature in Western Civilization, Desiderius Erasmus’s essay, ‘Praise of Folly’, is a classic satirical work in the style of Lucian, the ancient Greek, …

In ‘The Praise of Folly’ by Desiderius Erasmus, the reader is presented with a satirical treatise in which Folly herself praises her own virtues. Through clever wit and sharp criticism, Erasmus tackl …

Desiderius Erasmus’s ‘Erasmus Against War’ is a seminal work that critiques the violence and chaos brought about by war. Written in a persuasive and eloquent style, the book explores the devastating …

The Complete Works of Desiderius Erasmus Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, known as Erasmus or Erasmus of Rotterdam, was a Dutch philosopher and Christian scholar who is widely considered to have been …

In Praise of Folly is an essay by Desiderius Erasmus, first printed in June 1511. It is a satirical attack on superstitions and other traditions of European society as well as on the Western Church. …

In the months covered by this volume, Erasmus experienced sharply deteriorating health and thoughts of approaching death, although he remained active in the promotion of good causes and the defence o …

In Praise of Folly Desiderius Erasmus – Because some of English extant translations of In Praise of Folly are from the 18th, 19, and 20th centuries, Ive endeavored to present a version with the Ameri …

In the months covered by this volume, Erasmus experienced sharply deteriorating health and thoughts of approaching death, although he remained active in the promotion of good causes and the defence o …

Handbook of the Militant Christian (Latin: Enchiridion militis Christiani), which has also been translated as Handbook of a Christian Knight and The Manual of a Christian Knight, is a work written by …

Dutch thinker and theologian Desiderius Erasmus played a key role in the development of humanism during the Renaissance and early modern periods. In Against War, Erasmus mounts a stunningly lucid and …

This volume comprises Erasmus’ correspondence during the final two years of his life, June 1534-August 1536. In the public sphere it was a time of dramatic events: the reconquest of the duchy Wurttem …

This volume comprises Erasmus’ correspondence during the final two years of his life, June 1534-August 1536. In the public sphere it was a time of dramatic events: the reconquest of the duchy Wurttem …

Das Lob der Narrheit – Desiderius Erasmus – Als ein Kind launiger Muse will Erasmus von Rotterdam seine weltberühmte Schrift Das Lob der Narrheit beurteilt wissen. In dem Widmungsbriefe an den jünger …

In ‘Een twaalftal samenspraken’ schetst Desiderius Erasmus een levendig beeld van het 16e-eeuwse Europa door middel van twaalf gesprekken tussen diverse personages. Zijn werk staat bekend om de scher …

In Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus   In Praise of Folly , also translated as  The Praise of Folly  (Latin:  Stultitiae Laus or  Moriae Encomium), is an essay writt …

Erasmus’ thorough engagement with the New Testament, in particular his revision of the Vulgate translation, aroused much controversy, especially in the orthodox Roman Catholic country of Spain. Erasm …

In ‘Een twaalftal samenspraken’ presenteert Desiderius Erasmus een verzameling van gesprekken die een kritisch licht werpen op de samenleving en de menselijke natuur. Zijn heldere en humoristische sc …

Erasmus’ thorough engagement with the New Testament, in particular his revision of the Vulgate translation, aroused much controversy, especially in the orthodox Roman Catholic country of Spain. Erasm …

The Praise of Folly is a treatise written by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam and it is a satirical attack on superstitions, various traditions of European society and on the Latin Church. The Praise …

NOT YOUR PROFESSOR’S FOLLY. In 1925, the celebrated Chicago publisher Pascal Covici brought out an eclectic if unorthodox edition of In Praise of Folly, the classic Renaissance-era essay by philosoph …

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 R …

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 R …

The Complete Works of Desiderius Erasmus This Complete Collection includes the following titles: ——– 1 – The Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I 2 – A Merry Dialogue Declaringe the Properties of Shr …