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The Correspondence of Erasmus - Letters 446 to 593, Volume 4 (Hardcover, Volume 4)
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The Correspondence of Erasmus - Letters 446 to 593, Volume 4 (Hardcover, Volume 4)
Series: Collected Works of Erasmus, 4
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The year that began in August 1515 was the annus mirabilis of
Erasmus' career, the year, notably of the epistles of St Jerome and
the first edition of his New Testament. In the months following,
covered in this volume of the CWE, from August 1516 to June 1517,
the active exchange of letters that began with volume 3 continued,
giving a vivid impression of the impact of Erasmus' great
achievement upon his contemporaries. In his own words, "The New
Testament has made me friends everywhere." To Erasmus, the most
important event of these months was intensely private, the
dispensation granted by Leo X allowing him to escape permanently
from the restraints of his religious community, to earn his living
with the freedom of a secular priest. In elucidating the complex
circumstances surrounding this crucial development in Erasmus'
career, Dr McConica advances a new view of the obscure
circumstances surrounding Erasmus' illegitimacy. We are also given
Erasmus' thinly veiled account of his boyhood in the "Letter to
Grunnius," and, in an Appendix, the closely related account in the
Compendium vitae, a vital if controversial document for our
knowledge of his early life. In the background are the life and
enterprise of the Low Countries. Pursuit of personal promotion, the
politics of the Burgundian Court, and the emergence of the young
Prince Charles-soon to be Charles V-in the European scene, provide
further tuition for the great humanist in the use and abuse of
princely power. In this volume Erasmus moves between the Burgundian
court at Brussels and the domestic quiet of Pieter Gillis'
household at Antwerp, where he was prearing further work for the
Froben press at Basel. He is drawn to Louvain but avoids it,
fearing a scrutiny of his works by the hostile theologians of the
University. The England of Tunstall and More is always at hand, and
the letters of volume 4 incidentally provide the most important
chronicle for the publication of More's Utopia, over which Erasmus
kept a watchful eye. This volume records important developments in
Erasmus' many-faceted philosophy, especially in politics and
education. There is the sharpest condemnation of princely power
beneath the veil of rhetorical courtesy, with classical statements
of Erasmus' programme for men of education and Christan principle,
the rulers upon whom he rested his hope for the reform of
Christiandom. Educated Europe now waited upon Erasmus' words, and,
as a French humanist writes, "Words never fail him; and such
words!" Volume 4 of the Collected Works of Erasmus series
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