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Erasmus on Women
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 264

Erasmus on Women

In his writings Erasmus was more interested in arguing than in settling a case. However the equivocation we find in his writings is more than a literary game or a technical expedient. It is the corollary of his scepticism. One can hardly expect unequivocal statements on complex issues such as the role of women in society from a man who holds that `human affairs take so many shapes that definite answers cannot be provided for them all.' But as Erika Rummel demonstrates, the difficulties of interpreting Erasmus' texts do not invalidate their use as sources of social history; they only prevent us from ascribing the views expressed specifically to Erasmus. What emerges from the text is a composi...

The Erasmus Reader
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 388

The Erasmus Reader

'... The Erasmus Reader extends this impact to the carrels and desks of beginning and advanced students of Renaissance and Reformation history.'

Desiderius Erasmus
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 120

Desiderius Erasmus

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006-01-01
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  • Publisher: Capstone

Biography of the scholar whose ideas became the foundation of Christian humanism.

Erasmus of Rotterdam
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 280

Erasmus of Rotterdam

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The Adages of Erasmus
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 476

The Adages of Erasmus

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.

Erasmus and the Middle Ages
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 230

Erasmus and the Middle Ages

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2001
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This book discusses Erasmus' view of the medieval past and his historical consciousness in general. It attempts to show a fault line between Erasmus' specific observations on the course of history and the basic assumptions of his Christian humanism.

The Genius of Erasmus Darwin
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 452

The Genius of Erasmus Darwin

The Genius of Erasmus Darwin provides insight into the full extent of Erasmus Darwin's exceptional intellect. He is shown to be a major creative thinker and innovator, one of the minds behind the late eighteenth-century industrial revolution, and one of the first, if not the first, to perceive the living world (including humans) as part of a unified evolutionary scenario. The contributions here provide contextual understandings of Erasmus Darwin's thought, as well as studies of particular works and accounts of the later reception of his writings. In this way it is possible to see why the young Samuel Taylor Coleridge was moved to describe Darwin as 'the first literary character in Europe, and the most original-minded man'.Erasmus Darwin, Charles Darwin's grandfather, was one of the leading intellectuals of eighteenth-century England. He was a man with an extraordinary range of interests and activities: he was a doctor, biologist, inventor, poet, linguist and botanist. He was also a founding member of the Lunar Society, an intellectual community that included such eminent men as James Watt and Josiah Wedgwood.

Collected Works of Erasmus
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 360

Collected Works of Erasmus

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Erasmus of the Low Countries
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 312

Erasmus of the Low Countries

"Tracy's 'life and times' approach results in a considerably deeper understanding on the part of the reader of what sparked Erasmus's works, and of their intent."--Elisabeth G. Gleason, University of San Francisco "This sensitive and well-researched intellectual biography of Erasmus, situating him in his political and cultural milieu . . . contributes to a new understanding of Erasmian texts."--Erika Rummel, Wilfrid Laurier University "Tracy's 'life and times' approach results in a considerably deeper understanding on the part of the reader of what sparked Erasmus's works, and of their intent."--Elisabeth G. Gleason, University of San Francisco

Erasmus and the New Testament
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 212

Erasmus and the New Testament

Erasmus was a sixteenth century educator, theologian, satirist, and scholar and there have been a number of attempts to describe his intellectual development and to measure his greatness. However, Rabil believes that most interpretations of Erasmus and his work fail in analyzing Erasmus in a way consistent with all the source material on which such an interpretation must be based. The author argues that religion and humanism are the proper poles in relation to which Erasmus' intellectual development must be understood. In Rabil's own interpretation of Erasmus, he covers Erasmus' intellectual development as it relates to his editing of the New Testament in Greek, his translation of it into Latin, a look at the methodology in Erasmus' annotations and paraphrase of Romans, and a comparison of Erasmus and Luther on Romans. Rabil demonstrates that Erasmus' intellectual development occurred at every turning point, from his first poem in 1483 until he achieved a maturity of outlook in his edition of the Greek New Testament in 1516. Originally published in 1972 by Trinity University Press.