Erasmus was one of the most widely read and controversial authors of theearly modern period, inspiring a broad range of reader reactions. Thepresent volume addresses various aspects of Erasmus's reception, includinghow the author's name was sometimes used to bolster decidedly "u…
Erasmus was not only one of the most widely read authors of the early modern period, but one of the most controversial. For some readers he represented the perfect humanist scholar; for others, he was an arrogant hypercritic, a Lutheran heretic and polemicist, a virtuoso writer …
Erasmus was one of the most widely read and controversial authors of theearly modern period, inspiring a broad range of reader reactions. Thepresent volume addresses various aspects of Erasmus's reception, includinghow the author's name was sometimes used to bolster decidedly "u…
"Douglas Parker presents an old-spelling critical edition of William Roye's English translation of Erasmus's An exhortation to the diligent studye of scripture (or Paraclesis), and Martin Luther's An exposition in to the seventh chaptre of the pistle to the Corinthians (his comm…
"This book argues the provocative thesis that Philip Melanchthon, so often pictured as hopelessly caught in the middle between Erasmus and Luther, and more "Erasmian" than Lutheran in his thought, was, at least in his theological methods and views, not Erasmian at all, but in fa…