Collected Works of Erasmus Volume 15: The Correspondence of Erasmus: Letters 2082 to 2203

Desiderius Erasmus; Estes, James M.; Alexander Dalzell [trans]

ISBN 10: 1442642033 / ISBN 13: 9781442642034

Published by University of Toronto Press, 2012

About this Item

Minor shelf wear to book and dust jacket. Otherwise a tight, unmarked volume. Index. xxii, 403 pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Collected Works of Erasmus Volume 15: The Correspondence of Erasmus: Letters 2082 to 2203
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1442642033
• ISBN 13: 9781442642034
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

This volume contains the surviving correspondence of Erasmus for the first seven months of 1529. For nearly eight years he had lived happily and productively in Basel. In the winter of 1528-9, however, the Swiss version of the Lutheran Reformation triumphed in the city, destroying the liberal-reformist atmosphere Erasmus had found so congenial. Unwilling to live in a place where Catholic doctrine and practice were officially proscribed, Erasmus resettled in the quiet, reliably Catholic university town of Freiburg im Breisgau,

Despite the turmoil of moving, Erasmus managed to complete the new Froben editions of Seneca and St Augustine, both monumental projects that had been underway for years. He also found time to engage in controversy with his conservative Catholic critics, as well as to write a long letter lamenting the execution for heresy of his friend Louis de Berquin at Paris.

Volume 15 of the Collected Works of Erasmus series.

About the Author

Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536), a Dutch humanist, Catholic priest, and scholar, was one of the most influential Renaissance figures. A professor of divinity and Greek, Erasmus wrote, taught, and travelled, meeting with Europe’s foremost scholars. A prolific author, Erasmus wrote on both ecclesiastic and general human interest subjects.
James M. Estes is professor emeritus of history at Victoria College, University of Toronto.
Alexander Dalzell is professor emeritus of classics at the University of Toronto (Trinity College).