The complete online text of Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Desiderius Erasmus.

The Dutch scholar Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) was the dominant figure of the early-16th-century humanist movement. The intellectual arbiter during the last years of Christian unity, he remains one of European culture's most controversial giants. The e...

In July 1514 Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam left England for Basel, Switzerland, and the Froben Press to publish the annotated New Testament and the critical edition of the works of Saint Jerome on which he had been working during his stay at Cambridge....

********** The interaction and competition between Latin and the vernaculars is a fascinating feature of the Renaissance and the Reformation. Many authors were bilingual; the names of Petrarch, More, and Milton spring to mind, not to mention Luther, Hutten, and Zwingli. Erasmus, by...

Susan Thorpe writes "In his article 'Denser Yet, And Yet Less Dense' in the August 2004 issue, Rex Gooch confuses the reader by comparing the weights of single words with the weights of phrases. My article 'Lighter and Heavier' in the August 2003 issue...