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A major turning point in the popular Catholic appraisal of Erasmus occurred in 1900 with rosy Benedictine historian (and, later, Cardinal) Francis Aidan Gasquet's The Eve of the Reformation which included a whole chapter on Erasmus based on a re-reading of his books and letters. Gasquet wrote "Erasmus, like many of his contemporaries, is often ...
Sir Thomas More PC (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535), venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More, [2] was an English lawyer, judge, [3] social philosopher, author, statesman, amateur theologian, and noted Renaissance humanist. [4] He also served Henry VIII as Lord High Chancellor of England from October 1529 to May 1532. [5]
Erasmus by Holbein. Desiderius Erasmus was the most popular, most printed and arguably most influential author of the early Sixteenth Century, read in all nations in the West and frequently translated. By the 1530s, the writings of Erasmus accounted for 10 to 20 percent of all book sales in Europe. [1] "Undoubtedly he was the most read author ...
10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America is a ten-hour, ten-part television miniseries that aired on the History Channel from April 9 through April 14, 2006. The material was later adapted and published as a book by the same title. [1] [2]
Notably, the renowned theologian John Owen used More's work as a major point of contention in his own 1648 treatise, "The Death of Death in the Death of Christ." According to theologian J. I. Packer, Owen selected More's book "as the fullest statement of the case for universal redemption that had yet appeared in English," and utilized it as a 'chopping-block' to dismantle the arguments in ...
Hans Holbein's witty marginal drawing of Folly (1515), in a copy owned by Erasmus himself. The Praise of Folly begins with a satirical learned encomium, in which Folly praises herself, in the manner of the Greek satirist Lucian (2nd century AD), whose work Erasmus and Sir Thomas More had recently translated into Latin; Folly swipes at every part of society, from lovers to princes to inventors ...
Erasmus promoted the idea that a prince rules with the consent of his people, notably in his book The Education of a Christian Prince (and, through More, in the book Utopia.) He may have been influenced by the Brabantine custom of an incoming ruler being officially told of his duties and welcomed: [ 51 ] the Joyous Entry was a kind of contract.
Pieter Gillis (28 July 1486 – 6 or 11 November 1533), known by his anglicised name Peter Giles, the gallicized Pierre Gilles and sometimes the Latinised Petrus Ægidius, was a humanist, printer, and secretary to the city of Antwerp in the early sixteenth century. [2]