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Description

1. 2 preliminary leaves, [iii]-xxvi pages, 1 leaf, 469 pages frontispiece, plates, portraits, facsimiles; 20 cm

Series statement

1. Heroes of the Reformation. [III]

Uniform title

1. Heroes of the Reformation ; III.

Subject

1. Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536
2. Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536
3. Erasmus, Desiderius, 1466/69-1536
4. Erasmus, Desiderius
5. 1400-1500
6. 1500-1550
7. 08.23 renaissance philosophy

Genre/Form

1. Biographies
2. Biographies (form)
3. Biographies.

Contents

1. School and monastery, 1467-1490 -- Paris and Holland, 1492-1498 -- First visit to England, 1498-1500 -- Paris -- The 'Adagia' -- The "Enchiridion milits christiani: -- Panegyric on Philip of Burgundy. 1500-1506 -- Residence in Italy -- The "Praise of folly," 1506-1509 -- England (1509-1514) -- The New Testament -- The "De copia verborum et rerum" -- Basel and Louvain -- The "Institutio principis christiani," 1515-1518 -- Beginning of the Reformation -- Correspondence of 1518-1519 -- Definite breach with the reforming parties -- Hutten's "Expostulatio" and Erasmus' "Spongia," 1520-1523 -- Doctrinal opposition to the Reformation -- Freedom of the will -- The eucharist -- The "Spirit," 1523-1527 -- Familiar colloques -- New Testament paraphrases -- Controversial and didactic writings -- Removal to Freiburg -- Last reformatory treatises -- Return to Basel -- Death. 1523-1536.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. "Bibliographical note ": p. xxiii-xxvi.