Erasmus of Rotterdam: The Spirit of a Scholar

The first English-language popular biography of widely influential northern Renaissance scholar Erasmus of Rotterdam in twenty years.

Erasmus of Rotterdam came from an obscure background but, through remarkable perseverance, skill, and independent vision, became a powerful and controversial intellectual figure in Europe in the early sixteenth century. He was known for his vigorous opposition to war, intolerance, and hypocrisy, and at the same time for irony and subtlety that could confuse ...