The Correspondence of Erasmus : Letters 1535-1657 (1525) / Desiderius Erasmus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Erasmus, Desiderius, Author.

Contributor:

Dalzell, Alexander

Nauert, Charles G.

Series:

Collected Works of Erasmus ; 11

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (476 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Peasant's War in Germany and his own ill-health combined to keep Erasmus confined to the city of Basel during 1525, but he was still able to maintain an active correspondence spanning all of Europe. In the preceding year, he had published De libero artbitrio/Freedom of the Will, his first open attack on the teachings of Martin Luther. Despite this public defence of Catholic doctrine, Erasmus was continually forced in his correspondence to reply to open or veiled attacks by Catholic critics.Erasmus directly addressed one of his critics, No+l BTda, of the Paris theological faculty, in the spring of 1525. BTda was preparing analyses of Erasmus' publications that would eventually form the basis for a formal condemnation. Erasmus' correspondence with BTda, intended to head off such a condemnation, continued past 1525 and became increasingly hostile in tone. That same year, Erasmus also followed up reports that an influential Italian humanist, Alberta Pio, Prince of Carpi, was circulating at the papal curia a manuscript accusing Erasmus of being the major source of Luther's errors. Again, he directly addressed his opponent in order to prove his orthodoxy and to urge (in vain) that no such attack be published. In both cases, however, despite his break with Luther and his public and private opposition to the Protestant leader Oecolampadius in Basel, he was unsuccessful in turning aside the hostility of his Catholic critics.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

Map showing the principal places mentioned in volume 11

1535 / To John Longland – 1571 / To Noël Béda

1572 / To Alexius Thurzo – 1587 / From Celio Calcagnini

1588 / From Clement VII – 1621 / To Pierre Barbier

1622 / To Hieronim Łaski – 1657 / To Simon Grynaeus

Table of Correspondents

Works Frequently Cited

Short-Title Forms for Erasmus' Works

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

1-282-00296-1

9786612002960

1-4426-8097-0

OCLC:

944177503