The Correspondence of Erasmus : : Letters 2635 to 2802 April 1532-April 1533 / / Desiderius Erasmus.

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• VerfasserIn: Erasmus, Desiderius,
• TeilnehmendeR: Estes, James M.; Miller, Clarence.
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Collected Works of Erasmus ; 19
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 p.)

This volume includes Erasmus's correspondence for the months April 1532 to April 1533, a period in which he feared a religious civil war in Germany. In his desire to move somewhere far enough from Germany to be safe and yet not so far that an old man could not undertake the journey, Erasmus eventually decided to accept the invitation from Mary of Hungary, regent of the Netherlands, to return to his native Brabant. In March 1533, the terms of Erasmus's return were settled and in July they were formally approved by the emperor. But by this time Erasmus's fragile health had already declined to the point that he could not undertake the journey, and he would never recover sufficiently to do so. The works published in the months covered by this volume include the eighth, much-enlarged edition of the Adagia, and the Explanatio symboli, the catechism that delighted Erasmus's followers but gave Martin Luther much ammunition for a brutal attack on him in his Epistola de Erasmo Roterodamo of 1534.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Map showing the principal places mentioned in volume 19 -- THE CORRESPONDENCE OF ERASMUS: LETTERS 2635 TO 2719 -- THE CORRESPONDENCE OF ERASMUS: LETTERS 2720 TO 2802 -- Table of Correspondents -- Works Frequently Cited -- Short-Title Forms of Erasmus' Works -- Corrigenda for Earlier Volumes -- Index