Erasmus: 101 books

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 of religious institutions. Called the "Prince of Christian Humanists", Erasmus did a great deal to shape...

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.”...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 – 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...

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...

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...

5 works of Erasmus Darwin English physician (1731-1802) This ebook presents a collection of 5 works of Erasmus Darwin. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: The Botanic Garden – Part I The Botanic Garden – Part II The Temple of Nature or the Origin of Society Zoonomia - Volume I Zoonomia - Volume II

According to Wikipedia: "Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (sometimes known as Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam) (October 27, 1466/1469, Rotterdam July 12, 1536 Basel) was a Dutch Renaissance humanist and Catholic Christian theologian."

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...