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Author Bietenholz, Peter G., author.

Title Encounters with a radical Erasmus : Erasmus' work as a source of radical thought in early modern Europe / Peter G. Bietenholz
Published Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2009 (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Gibson Library Connections, 2010)

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 326 pages)
Series Erasmus studies
Erasmus studies
Contents Introduction -- Sebastian Franck scrutinizes Erasmus' Annotationes to the New Testament -- Mining antitrinitarian ore from Erasmus' New Testament -- Peace and war according to Erasmus' New Testment -- The Castello circle : religious toleration and radical reasoning -- Erasmus, his mistress folly, and the garden of Epicurus -- Doctoring the truth : Cardano's Erasmian physic for the Libertins -- Epicureanism, scepticism, and libertinage in early modern France -- Radical echoes of Erasmus in seventeenth-century England -- The taste of Erasmian spice in some classics of early modern literature -- Conclusion
Summary An engaging look at Erasmus' theological, philosophical and socio-political influence, Encounters with a Radical Erasmus will prove useful to scholars of humanism, theology, the Reformation and Renaissance
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Subject Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536 -- Influence
Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536 -- Criticism and interpretation -- History
SUBJECT Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536 fast
Subject Radicalism -- Europe -- History -- 16th century
Radicalism -- Europe -- History -- 17th century
Authors and readers -- Europe -- History -- 16th century
Authors and readers -- Europe -- History -- 17th century
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
HISTORY -- Renaissance.
Authors and readers
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Radicalism
Europe
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781442687998
1442687991
Other Titles Radical Erasmus