The complete online text of Selections from Erasmus 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....

Textual editors comprise a small and little rewarded community, but humanist scholarship depends utterly on them. Erika Rummel here presents six essays from the Thirtieth Annual Conference on Editorial Problems, this one in 1994 dedicated to the "age of Erasmus." The slim volume...

by Joseph M. Levine. Chicago, Chicago University Press, 1999. xviii. 249 pp. $27.50 U.S. (cloth). This collection of essays, the sixth book for distinguished historian Joseph Levine, ranges across Renaissance historiography, the sense of anachronism, biblical criticism, the exposure of forgery and...