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Erasmus and the Age of Reformation

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This shorter book on Erasmus might be considered a companion to Huizinga's most famous work, The Waning of the Middle Ages. While in his magnum opus he presented a study of the forms of life and thought in France and the Netherlands in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, in this one the subject is the central intellectual figure of the next generation after the period which Huizinga called the waning, or rather the autumn, of the Middle Ages. It was first published in 1924, and so belongs to the same period of the author. Erasmus was, as it appears from many of pages, a man for whom Huizinga had a very special sympathy. - Summary by Leni (7 hr 55 min)

Chapters

Chapter I. CHILDHOOD AND EARLY YOUTH, 1466-88

19:00

Read by Owlivia

Chapter II. IN THE MONASTERY, 1488-95

23:00

Read by Trenton

Chapter III. THE UNIVERSITY OF PARIS, 1495-9

21:15

Read by Trenton

Chapter IV. FIRST STAY IN ENGLAND, 1499-1500

25:04

Read by Trenton

Chapter V. ERASMUS AS A HUMANIST

19:31

Read by Trenton

Chapter VI. THEOLOGICAL ASPIRATIONS, 1501

17:08

Read by Owlivia

Chapter VII. YEARS OF TROUBLE—LOUVAIN, PARIS, ENGLAND, 1502-6

17:58

Read by Minnie

Chapter VIII. IN ITALY, 1506-9

18:55

Read by Rita Boutros

Chapter IX. THE PRAISE OF FOLLY

27:24

Read by Rita Boutros

Chapter X. THIRD STAY IN ENGLAND, 1509-14

21:22

Read by Michele Eaton

Chapter XI. A LIGHT OF THEOLOGY, 1514-16

29:20

Read by Owlivia

Chapter XII. ERASMUS'S MIND

18:49

Read by Mario Pineda

Chapter XIII. ERASMUS'S MIND (continued)

17:30

Read by Mario Pineda

Chapter XIV. ERASMUS'S CHARACTER

31:29

Read by Trenton

Chapter XV. AT LOUVAIN, 1517-18

23:22

Read by Jim Locke

Chapter XVI. FIRST YEARS OF THE REFORMATION

30:55

Read by Craig Campbell

Chapter XVII. ERASMUS AT BASLE, 1521-9

26:49

Read by Rita Boutros

Chapter XVIII. CONTROVERSY WITH LUTHER AND GROWING CONSERVATISM, 1524-6

19:24

Read by Owlivia

Chapter XIX. AT WAR WITH HUMANISTS AND REFORMERS, 1528-9

25:44

Read by Kazbek

Chapter XX. LAST YEARS

23:44

Read by Kazbek

Chapter XXI. CONCLUSION

17:31

Read by Wayne Cooke

Bewertungen

(5 Sterne)

Different readers per chapter, but through Libravox I was able to access this book as an audio. My interest in Erasmus was peaked by reading Ken Follet’s A Column of Fire where a printer’s daughter secretly delivered a book to a “interested buyer” at a risk to herself.

(4 Sterne)

A couple chapters are poorly presented but overall well written and read.

good book well read

(5 Sterne)

good book well read