Erasmus of Rotterdam
By: by Maurice Wilkinson.
Series: Catholic thought and thinkers series
Publisher: P. J. Kenedy
Published: 1921
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
Subjects: Erasmus, Desiderius, -- d. 1536
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Contents; title: EDITOR'S PREFACE . . pp. 7, 8; title: AUTHOR'S PREFACE . . pp. 15, 16; title: CHAPTER I; title: SOCIETY IN THE EARLY SIXTEENTH CENTURY; title: Erasmus's birth and parentage — The spread  of the Renaissance — Its character in Italy,  France, and the Empire — Its Neo-Paganism  and materialistic spirit — The sixteenth century  as the beginning of modern Europe — The  antithesis between the Renaissance and the  mediaeval spirit — Comparison between the  new learning in Italy, France, the Empire, and  England — The ground exceedingly favourable  for the spread of the Reformation in Germany,  England, and the Netherlands  pp. 17-35; title: CHAPTER II; title: THE YOUTH AND MATURITY OF ERASMUS; title: Erasmus's appearance and education — He  enters the Augustinian priory of Steyn —  Ordained priest by the Bishop of Utrecht —  Dangers of entering an order without real  vocation — Dispensed from the monastic life  and enters the service of the Bishop of Cambrai  — He goes to the University of Paris — In Paris  he makes the acquaintance of William Blount,  which is the occasion of his visit to England —  Travel a feature of the Middle Ages and  Insularity a product of the Reformation — In  London Erasmus began his life-long friendship  with More, Colet, and Warham — He leaves  England : troubles at Dover — His determina-  tion to visit Italy and methods of obtaining the  necessary money — His second visit to England  and departure for Bologna ; interview with  Julius II — His third visit to England and the  Cambridge period — Henry VIIPs offer of  patronage ; Erasmus Rector of Aldington and  Warham's kindness — The pilgrimage to St.  Thomas, Canterbury, and to Our Lady,  Walsingham ; reflections on pilgrimages —  Erasmus again at Cambridge — The appearance  of his Greek New Testament and Latin  version ; the beginning of his fame — His final  departure from England . . pp. 36-58; title: CHAPTER III; title: HIS ZENITH AND THE BEGINNINGS OF PROTESTANTISM; title: Erasmus summoned to the Court at Brussels  — Fresh trouble over his dispensation — Corre-  spondence with Servatius Rogerus, prior of  Steyn — Ammonius undertakes to obtain a  complete dispensation, which is granted by  Leo X — The Reuchlin controversy — Leo X's  character and magnificence — The party of  conservative reform and the appearance of  Luther — Erasmus's fear and dislike of Luther  — He urges the Elector of Mainz to moderation  in the matter of Tetzel and the Indulgences —  His New Testament causes alarm to the  conservatives, although it appeared with the  approval of Leo X — Erasmus's chief opponents  —Luther's open defiance of the Church —  Erasmus refuses him any further support even  of the hitherto limited kind — The Diet of  Worms and its results — The party of innovation  and heresy henceforth irreconcilable — Growing  suspicion of Erasmus's attitude ; Erasmus  supported by the Popes, but under constant  attacks shows some lack of prudence — St.  Ignatius and the works of Erasmus — The  subsequent attitude of the Society of Jesus  towards him .... pp. 59-86; title: CHAPTER IV; title: HIS TROUBLES AND LATER YEARS; title: Open hostility to Luther — Death of Leo X  and accession of Adrian VI — His character,  austerity, and piety — His determination to  correct abuses — He appeals to Erasmus to rise  in God's cause and stops the Carinelite attack  on him — Adrian's short reign and his dis-  appointments ; succeeded by Clement VII —  The violence and iconoclasm of the Reformers  — Erasmus and Ulrich von Hutten — Luther's contemptuous letter to Erasmus — Erasmus  replies with his De Libero Arbitrio — Erasmus's  triumph and the delight of the Catholic world  — Correspondence with Melanchthon, the  only reformer with whom Erasmus continued  friendly relations to the end — Erasmus at  Basel — Hostility of the Spanish theologians ;  Charles V uncertain, but supports Erasmus  secretly — Condition of some monasteries at  this time — The Reformation breaks loose in  Basel and Erasmus goes to Freiburg-i-B —  The question of the nullity of Henry VIIPs  marriage with Katherine — Melanchthon pre-  sents the Confession to the Diet at Augsburg ;  its moderation ; its superiority over all other     hostility to the Reformation : the edict of  restoration and restitution — Erasmus's views  on the situation — Erasmus in favour with  Clement VII and with the King of the Romans  — The schism in England caused by Clement's  inability to declare the King's marriage null  and the progress of heresy — Paul III succeeds  to the throne of St. Peter ; his wish to appoint  Fisher and Erasmus Cardinals, a proof of his  sincerity in the matter of reform — The judicial  murder of Blessed Thomas More and Blessed  John Fisher — The effect of their death upon  Erasmus— His illness and death in Basel— His  character and tastes ; his strength and weakness pp. 87-115; title: CHAPTER V; title: THE FRIENDS AND CORRESPONDENTS OF ERASMUS; title: Erasmus at Oxford — His editions of the  Fathers, and not his New Testament nor his  texts of the classics, his greatest achievement —  His regard for the works of St. Thomas  Aquinas — The Moria Encomium : the out-  cry in the universities which its appearance  caused — Sir Thomas More's support of Greek —  The struggle between Greeks and Trojans at  Oxford— Polydore Vergil— The Julius Ex T  clusus : a politico-religious squib ; Erasmus  the probable author — The Colloquies — The  Paraphrases of the New Testament ; to whom  dedicated ; the praise bestowed on them from  suspect quarters ; their drawbacks as literature  for popular use — Erasmus's correspondents ;  their remarkable diversity ; amongst them were  included all the most famous men of the day —  Minor correspondents : Lypsius, Meyer, Wil-  denauer, Kock ; Louis de Berquin, a brilliant  scholar; condemned by the Sorbonne; his  tragical end — de Pins, Vives, Botzheim, in-  timates of Erasmus and staunch Catholics —  Erasmus's work and influence — his undoubted  Catholicity — Final reflections. . pp. 1 16-142; title: INDEX OF NAMES . . pp. 143, 144