Erasmus and the Age of Reformation

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Biography & Autobiography

Authors: Johan Huizinga In Year : 1924

Book Language: English

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Chapter I. CHILDHOOD AND EARLY YOUTH, 1466-88
Chapter II. IN THE MONASTERY, 1488-95
Chapter III. THE UNIVERSITY OF PARIS, 1495-9
Chapter IV. FIRST STAY IN ENGLAND, 1499-1500
Chapter V. ERASMUS AS A HUMANIST
Chapter VI. THEOLOGICAL ASPIRATIONS, 1501
Chapter VII. YEARS OF TROUBLE—LOUVAIN, PARIS, ENGLAND, 1502-6
Chapter VIII. IN ITALY, 1506-9
Chapter IX. THE PRAISE OF FOLLY
Chapter X. THIRD STAY IN ENGLAND, 1509-14
Chapter XI. A LIGHT OF THEOLOGY, 1514-16
Chapter XII. ERASMUS'S MIND
Chapter XIII. ERASMUS'S MIND (continued)
Chapter XIV. ERASMUS'S CHARACTER
Chapter XV. AT LOUVAIN, 1517-18
Chapter XVI. FIRST YEARS OF THE REFORMATION
Chapter XVII. ERASMUS AT BASLE, 1521-9
Chapter XVIII. CONTROVERSY WITH LUTHER AND GROWING CONSERVATISM, 1524-6
Chapter XIX. AT WAR WITH HUMANISTS AND REFORMERS, 1528-9
Chapter XX. LAST YEARS
Chapter XXI. CONCLUSION

This shorter book on Erasmus might be considered a companion to Huizinga's most famous work, The Waning of the Middle Ages. While in his magnum opus he presented a study of the forms of life and thought in France and the Netherlands in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, in this one the subject is the central intellectual figure of the next generation after the period which Huizinga called the waning, or rather the autumn, of the Middle Ages. It was first published in 1924, and so belongs to the same period of the author. Erasmus was, as it appears from many of pages, a man for whom Huizinga had a very special sympathy. - Summary by Leni