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- Herausgeber: Delphi Classics Ltd
- Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
- Serie: Delphi Series Nine
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018
The Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus was the greatest scholar of the northern Renaissance, as well as the first editor of the New Testament. A classical scholar that wrote in a pure Latin style, Erasmus earned the sobriquet "Prince of the Humanists". Using the philological methods pioneered by Italian humanists, he helped lay the foundations for the historical-critical study of the past. This comprehensive eBook presents Erasmus’ collected works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Erasmus’ life and works
* Concise introductions to the texts
* All the major works, with individual contents tables
* Features rare translations appearing for the first time in digital publishing
* Two translations of ‘The Praise of Folly’: John Wilson and the anonymous 1887 Hamilton, Adams and Co. Translation
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Easily locate the dialogues or essays you want to read
* Special criticism section, with essays evaluating Erasmus’ contribution to literature, including P. S. Allen’s seminal study
* Features three biographies – immerse yourself in Erasmus’ medieval world
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres
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CONTENTS:
The Books
The Manual of a Christian Knight
The Praise of Folly
Colloquies
Ciceronianus
The Education of Children
Against War
The Complaint of Peace
The Criticism
The Age of Erasmus by P. S. Allen
Times of Erasmus and Luther: Three Lectures by James Anthony Froude
The Biographies
Erasmus and the Age of Reformation by Johan Huizinga
Erasmus by Richard Claverhouse Jebb
Life of Erasmus by P. S. Allen
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The Collected Works of
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS
(1466-1536)
Contents
The Books
The Manual of a Christian Knight
The Praise of Folly
Colloquies
Ciceronianus
The Education of Children
Against War
The Complaint of Peace
The Criticism
The Age of Erasmus by P. S. Allen
Times of Erasmus and Luther: Three Lectures by James Anthony Froude
The Biographies
Erasmus and the Age of Reformation by Johan Huizinga
Erasmus by Richard Claverhouse Jebb
Life of Erasmus by P. S. Allen
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The Collected Works of
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS
By Delphi Classics, 2018
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Collected Works of Desiderius Erasmus
First published in the United Kingdom in 2018 by Delphi Classics.
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The Books
Rotterdam by Frans Hogenberg, c. 1579— Erasmus’ birthplace
Map of Rotterdam by Willem and Joan Blaeu, 1652
Rotterdam today
The house-shaped sculpture marking Erasmus’ birthplace in Rotterdam
The Manual of a Christian Knight
Anonymous 1905 translation, Methuen & Company
Originally composed in Latin under the tile Enchiridion militis Christiani, this instructional manual was written in 1501 and first published in English in 1533 by William Tyndale. During a stay in Tournehem, a castle near Saint-Omer in the north of modern-day France, Erasmus encountered an uncivilised, yet friendly soldier who was an acquaintance of his close friend, Battus. On the request of the soldier’s pious wife, who was affronted by her husband’s behaviour, Battus asked Erasmus to write a text that would convince the soldier of the necessity of mending his ways, which he did in due course. The resulting work was eventually re-drafted by Erasmus and expanded into the extant text today. Destined to become one of Erasmus’ most influential works, the manual calls on Christians to act in accordance with the Christian faith, rather than merely performing the necessary rites.
Portrait of Desiderius Erasmus, Rijks Museum, Amsterdam
CONTENTS
THE BOOK SPEAKETH
THE PRINTER TO THE FAITHFUL READER
ENCHIRIDION THE EPISTLE
ENCHIRIDION
WE MUST WATCH AND LOOK ABOUT US EVERMORE WHILE WE BE IN THIS LIFE.
OF THE WEAPONS TO BE USED IN THE WAR OF A CHRISTIAN MAN.
THAT THE FIRST POINT OF WISDOM IS TO KNOW THYSELF, AND OF TWO MANNER WISDOMS, THE TRUE WISDOM, AND THE APPARENT.
OF THE OUTWARD AND INWARD MAN.
OF THE DIVERSITY OF AFFECTIONS.
OF THE INWARD AND OUTWARD MAN AND OF THE TWO PARTS OF MAN, PROVED BY HOLY SCRIPTURE.
OF THREE PARTS OF MAN, THE SPIRIT, THE SOUL, AND THE FLESH.
CERTAIN GENERAL RULES OF TRUE CHRISTIAN LIVING.
AGAINST THE EVIL OF IGNORANCE. THE FIRST RULE.
THE SECOND RULE.
THE THIRD RULE.
THE FOURTH RULE.
THE FIFTH RULE.
THE SIXTH RULE.
HERE FOLLOW OPINIONS MEET FOR A CHRISTIAN MAN.
THE SEVENTH RULE.
THE EIGHTH RULE.
THE NINTH RULE.
THE TENTH RULE.
THE ELEVENTH RULE.
THE TWELFTH RULE.
THE THIRTEENTH RULE.
THE FOURTEENTH RULE.
THE FIFTEENTH RULE.
THE SIXTEENTH RULE.
THE SEVENTEENTH RULE.
THE EIGHTEENTH RULE.
THE NINETEENTH RULE.
THE TWENTIETH RULE.
THE TWENTY-FIRST RULE.
THE TWENTY-SECOND RULE.
REMEDIES AGAINST CERTAIN SINS AND SPECIAL VICES, AND FIRST AGAINST BODILY LUST.
A SHORT RECAPITULATION OF REMEDIES AGAINST THE FLAME OF LUST.
AGAINST THE ENTICINGS AND PROVOKINGS UNTO AVARICE.
THE RECAPITULATION OF THE REMEDIES AGAINST THE VICE OF AVARICE.
AGAINST AMBITION OR DESIRE OF HONOUR AND AUTHORITY.
AGAINST ELATION OTHERWISE CALLED PRIDE OR SWELLING OF THE MIND.
AGAINST WRATH AND DESIRE OF VENGEANCE.
William Tyndale (1494-1536) was an English scholar who became a leading figure in the Protestant Reformation in the years leading up to his execution. He is well known for his translation of the Bible into English.
THE BOOK SPEAKETH
TOPLEASEALLsorts of men I do not pass,
To please the good and learned is a fair thing,
Yea, and these both were more than covenant was
And more than I look for. Whoso the learning
Of Christ doth favour, if he like well all thing
I seek no further, Christ is mine Apollo,
Only strengthening me to speak this that I do.
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THE PRINTER TO THE FAITHFUL READER
THEMORTALWORLDa field is of battle
Which is the cause that strife doth never fail
Against man, by warring of the flesh
With the devil, that always fighteth fresh
The spirit to oppress by false envy;
The which conflict is continually
During his life, and like to lose the field.
But he be armed with weapon and shield
Such as behoveth to a christian knight,
Where God each one, by his Christ chooseth right
Sole captain, and his standard to bear.
Who knoweth it not, then this will teach him here
In his brevyer, poynarde, or manual
The love shewing of high Emanuell.
In giving us such harness of war
Erasmus is the only furbisher
Scouring the harness, cankered and adust
Which negligence had so sore fret with rust
Then champion receive as thine by right
The manual of the true christian knight.
ENCHIRIDION THE EPISTLE
ERASMUSOF ROTERDAMEsendeth greeting to the reverend father in Christ (and lord) the lord Paul Wolzius, the most religious abbot of the monastery the which is commonly called Hughes court.
Albeit, most virtuous father, that the little book, to the which I have given this name or title Enchiridion militis christiani, which many a day ago I made for myself only, and for a certain friend of mine being utterly unlearned, hath begun to mislike and displease me the less, forasmuch as I do see that it is allowed of you and other virtuous and learned men such as you be, of whom (as ye are indeed endued with godly learning, and also with learned godliness) I know nothing to be approved, but that which is both holy and also clerkly: yet it hath begun well nigh also to please and like me now, when I see it (after that it hath been so oftentimes printed) yet still to be desired and greatly called for, as if it were a new work made of late: if so be the printers do not lie to flatter me withal. But again there is another thing which oftentimes grieveth me in my mind, that a certain well learned friend of mine long ago said, very properly and sharply checking me, that there was more holiness seen in the little book than in the whole author and maker thereof. Indeed he spake these words in his jesting bourdyngly, but would to God he had not spoken so truly as he bourded bitterly. And that grieveth me so much the more because the same thing hath chanced to come likewise to pass in him, for the changing of whose manners principally I took upon me this labour and travail, for he also not only hath not withdrawn himself from the court, but is daily much deeper drowned therein than he was aforetime, for what good purpose I cannot tell, but as he confesseth himself with much great misery.
