Getting to know Erasmus

Christian humanism and Erasmus

Erasmus as writer and publisher

“What else is a city,” Erasmus wrote, “but a great monastery?”

Erasmus and the Anabaptists

What Erasmus thought about preaching, proverbs, shopping, and Martin Luther

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Select excerpts from writings of Erasmus

How he stacked up against other reformers

Where he went, who his friends were, who argued with him, who read his books

Erasmus as a reforming leader

Thomas More, Erasmus’s friend

Erasmus and his complex relationships with his contemporaries

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Erasmus: Christ’s humanist