The editor of Erasmus’s letters drew these Oxford and London lectures from the personal records of the scholars around him. Allen begins with a circle of humanists at the Adwert monastery and goes on to schools, monasteries, universities, force and fraud, private life and manners, and pilgrimages, before turning to Erasmus’s own life-work and the Renaissance north of the Alps.
A humane, learned picture of everyday intellectual life on the eve of the Reformation. Download the free EPUB.