with a selection from the letters of Erasmus

CHILDHOOD AND EARLY YOUTH

1466-88

IN THE MONASTERY

1488-95

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THE UNIVERSITY OF PARIS

1495-9

FIRST STAY IN ENGLAND

1499-1500

ERASMUS AS A HUMANIST

THEOLOGICAL ASPIRATIONS

1501

YEARS OF TROUBLE—LOUVAIN, PARIS, ENGLAND

1502-6

IN ITALY

1506-9

THE PRAISE OF FOLLY

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THIRD STAY IN ENGLAND

1509-14

A LIGHT OF THEOLOGY

1514-16

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ERASMUS'S MIND

ERASMUS'S MIND-CONTINUED

ERASMUS'S CHARACTER

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AT LOUVAIN

1517-18

FIRST YEARS OF THE REFORMATION

ERASMUS AT BASLE

1521-9

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CONTROVERSY WITH LUTHER AND GROWING CONSERVATISM

1524-6

AT WAR WITH HUMANISTS AND REFORMERS

1528-9

LAST YEARS

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CONCLUSION

I. TO SERVATIUS ROGER[21]

II. TO NICHOLAS WERNER[23]

III. TO ROBERT FISHER[25]

IV. TO JAMES BATT[28]

V. TO ANTONY OF BERGEN[31]

VI. TO WILLIAM WARHAM[36]

VII. TO ALDUS MANUTIUS[42]

VIII. TO THOMAS MORE[47]

IX. TO JOHN COLET[49]

X. TO SERVATIUS ROGER

XI. TO WOLFGANG FABRICIUS CAPITO[58]

XII. TO THOMAS MORE

XIII. TO BEATUS RHENANUS[73]

XIV. TO MARTIN LUTHER

XV. TO ULRICH HUTTEN[80]

XVI. TO WILLIBALD PIRCKHEIMER[89]

XVII. TO MARTIN LUTHER

XVIII. TO THEOPHRASTUS PARACELSUS[100]

XIX. TO MARTIN BUCER[103]

XX. TO ALFONSO VALDES[106]

XXI. TO CHARLES BLOUNT[112]

XXII. TO BARTHOLOMEW LATOMUS[116]

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS