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Title: Erasmus and the Age of Reformation

Author: Johan Huizinga

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ERASMUS AND THE AGE OF REFORMATION

JOHAN HUIZINGA

_with a selection from the letters of Erasmus_

HARPER TORCHBOOKS / The Cloister Library

HARPER & ROW, PUBLISHERS

NEW YORK, EVANSTON, AND LONDON

[Illustration: WOODCUT BY HANS HOLBEIN. 1535]

ERASMUS AND THE AGE OF REFORMATION

_Printed in the United States of America_

Huizinga's text was translated from the Dutch by F. Hopman and first
published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1924. The section from the
Letters of Erasmus was translated by Barbara Flower.

Reprinted by arrangement with Phaidon Press, Ltd., London

Originally published under the title: "Erasmus of Rotterdam"

First HARPER TORCHBOOK edition published 1957

Library of Congress catalogue card number 57-10119

CONTENTS

_Preface by G. N. Clark_ xi

CHAP.

I CHILDHOOD AND EARLY YOUTH, 1466-88 1

II IN THE MONASTERY, 1488-95 10

III THE UNIVERSITY OF PARIS, 1495-9 20

IV FIRST STAY IN ENGLAND, 1499-1500 29

V ERASMUS AS A HUMANIST 39

VI THEOLOGICAL ASPIRATIONS, 1501 47

VII YEARS OF TROUBLE--LOUVAIN, PARIS, ENGLAND, 1502-6 55

VIII IN ITALY, 1506-9 62

IX THE PRAISE OF FOLLY 69

X THIRD STAY IN ENGLAND, 1509-14 79

XI A LIGHT OF THEOLOGY, 1514-16 87

XII ERASMUS'S MIND 100

XIII ERASMUS'S MIND (_continued_) 109

XIV ERASMUS'S CHARACTER 117

XV AT LOUVAIN, 1517-18 130

XVI FIRST YEARS OF THE REFORMATION 139

XVII ERASMUS AT BASLE, 1521-9 151

XVIII CONTROVERSY WITH LUTHER AND GROWING CONSERVATISM, 1524-6 161

XIX AT WAR WITH HUMANISTS AND REFORMERS, 1528-9 170

XX LAST YEARS 179

XXI CONCLUSION 188

SELECTED LETTERS OF ERASMUS 195

_List of Illustrations_ 257

_Index of Names_ 2