First published in Paris in 1511, "The Praise of Folly" has enjoyed enormous and highly controversial success from the author's lifetime down to our own day. "The Folly" has no rival, except perhaps Thomas More's "Utopia", as the most intense and lively presentation of the literary, social and theol[...]
Erasmus (1466-1536) of Rotterdam was Northern Europe's leader of Renaissance learning. This great Christian humanist and scholar was the founder of the school of thought that anyone who had a good university education and was well-read in literature and theology would be morally virtuous and intelle[...]
Required reading for humanities classes.
This 1904 book discusses the fundamental importance of education and theories of education within the works of Erasmus.[...]
Two central figures of the Protestant Reformation wrestle with ideas of free will, God and the institution of the Church.[...]