Erasmus of the Low Countries 1st Edition by James Tracy 0520324420 9780520324428
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ISBN 10: 0520324420
ISBN 13: 9780520324428
Author: James D. Tracy
Few historical figures have been more important in modeling the ideal of impartial critical scholarship than Erasmus of Rotterdam (1469-1536). Yet his critical scholarship, though beholden to no one, was not dispassionate. James Tracy shows how Erasmus the scholar sought through his writings to promote the moral and religious renewal of Christian society.
Tracy finds the genesis of the humanist’s notion of a “Christian republic” of pious and learned individuals in his “Burgundian,” or Low Countries, roots. Erasmus’s vision of reform, Tracy argues, sprung from a humanist tradition focusing on the importance of teaching (doctrina), a tradition from which Erasmus departed in his optimism about human nature and his deep suspicion of the powers that be. Amid the storms of Reformation controversy, he pruned back the “dissimulation” by which he had thought to convey different meanings to different readers, yet in the end he could not control the way his words were read. If Erasmus’s scholarly ideal carries an enduring fascination, so too does his dilemma as a man of circumspection who would also be a reformer.
This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1966.
Table of contents:
PART I Bonae Literae
CHAPTER 1 The BurgundianHabsburg Low Countries
CHAPTER 2 Erasmus against the Barbarians
CHAPTER 3 The Ideal of Christian Civility
CHAPTER 4 Between Wisdom and Folly
PART II Philosophia Christi
CHAPTER 5 Reformers of Doctrina
CHAPTER 6 “The Name of Erasmus
CHAPTER 7 “The Most Corrupt Generation There Has Ever Been”
CHAPTER 8 The Philosophy of Christ
CHAPTER 9 In Defense of Bonae Literae
PART III Second Thoughts, 1521-1536
CHAPTER 10 Christian Liberty in the Catholic Church
CHAPTER 11 A Reformation Gone Wrong
CHAPTER 13 Circumspect Reformer
CHAPTER 14 Erasmus and His Readers
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