The Colloquies of Erasmus; Volume 2


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Colloquies


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Erasmus' Familiar Colloquies grew from a small collection of phrases, sentences, and snatches of dialogue written in Paris about 1497 to help his private pupils improve their command of Latin. Twenty years later the material was published by Johann Froben (Basel 1518). It was an immediate success and was reprinted thirty times in the next four years. For the edition of March 1522 Erasmus began to add fully developed dialogues, and a book designed to improve boys' use of Latin (and their deportment) soon became a work of literature for adults, although it retained traces of its original purposes. The final Froben edition (March, 1533) had about sixty parts, most of them dialogues. It was in the last form that the Colloquies were read and enjoyed for four centuries. For modern readers it is one of the best introductions to European society of the Renaissance and Reformation periods, with lively descriptions of daily life and provocative discussions of political, religious, social, and literary topics, presented with Erasmus's characteristic wit and verve. Each colloquy has its own introduction and full explanatory, historical, and biographical notes. Volumes 39 and 40 of the Collected Works of Erasmus series - Two-volume set.




The Praise of Folly


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Ten Colloquies of Erasmus


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The Literary World


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Crisis and Renewal


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This latest volume in the Westminster History of Christian Thought series introduces readers to the events and ideas that propelled the various religious reformations of sixteenth-century Europe. A splendid introduction to this momentous period, Crisis and Renewal examines the historical and theological developments that dramatically changed the religious landscape of Europe and continue to have important effects today. Discussion questions and other aids make this an excellent book for classroom use. Designed particularly for undergraduate courses in theology and religion, the Westminster History of Christian Thought series offers reliable and accessible introductions to Christian thought for each major period in Christian history--the early church, the medieval era, the Reformation, the modern age, and the contemporary period--and concludes with a volume on American religious thought.




The Greatest Miscellaneous Literature


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JOSEPH ADDISON The Spectator ÆSOP Fables MATTHEW ARNOLD Essays in Criticism GEORGE BRANDES Main Currents of the Literature of the Nineteenth Century ROBERT BURTON The Anatomy of Melancholy THOMAS CARLYLE On Heroes and Hero-Worship Sartor Resartus MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Concerning Friendship WILLIAM COBBETT Advice to Young Men DANIEL DEFOE A Journal of the Plague Year DEMOSTHENES The Philippics RALPH WALDO EMERSON English Traits Representative Men ERASMUS Familiar Colloquies In Praise of Folly GESTA ROMANORUM A Story-Book of the Middle Ages APPLICATION APPLICATION OLIVER GOLDSMITH The Citizen of the World HENRY HALLAM Introduction to the Literature of Europe WILLIAM HAZLITT Lectures on the English Poets OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table THREE JOHNS THREE THOMASES THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS LA BRUYÈRE Characters WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Imaginary Conversations LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Reflections and Moral Maxims LEONARDO DA VINCI Treatise on Painting GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING Laocoon JOHN STUART MILL Essay on Liberty JOHN MILTON Areopagitica PLUTARCH Parallel Lives MADAME DE STAËL On Germany WEIMAR BERLIN THE "GERMANIA" OF TACITUS Customs and Peoples of Germany HIPPOLYTE ADOLPHE TAINE History of English Literature HENRY DAVID THOREAU "Walden" ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE Democracy in America IZAAK WALTON The Compleat Angler PISCATOR, VENATOR, AND AUCEPS




Reform and Renewal


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Scholarship has established the prevalence of a reformist ideal of 'the Commonwealth' in early Tudor England, but concentration on scholars and writings has led to a neglect of affairs and politics. This study attempts to discover the fate of reforming programmes when efforts were made to translate them into reality, and it uses the administration of Thomas Cromwell as a test-case. Cromwell, it is well known, favoured advanced thinkers and promoted much parliamentary legislation; how far can we see him as a proponent of 'commonwealth' politics and what success did we have? A close look establishes him as a man who without formal training practised the techniques of the learned and behaved as an intellectual. He also emerges as an evangelical in religion, a believer in the via media between extremes on which the Church of England was to erect its particular form of religion. As the only experienced parliamentarian in the group, he also knew how to handle the instrument of reform. The study discusses this work in two main respects: reforms in the economy and reform of the law.