Erasmus: A Critical Biography

1. Childhood and Youth. 2. A Humanist in the Monastery. 3. The Hard Apprenticeship of Freedom. 4. Paris, The Attractions and Burdens of a Tutorship. 5. England, A Second Homeland. 6. Paris and Louvain, From the Adages to the Panegyric. 7. An Introduction to the Devout Life: The Handbook of the Christian Soldier. 8. Italy and the Return to the Sources. 9. A Religious Pamphlet: The Praise of Folly. 10. From the Foundations of the Abundant Style to The Education of the Christian Prince. 11. The New Testament. 12. The Age of Gold. 13. From Louvain to Antwerp via Basel and Cologne. 14. Polemics at Louvain and Relaxation at Anderlecht. 15. Erasmus and Luther: The Clash of Two Reforms. 16. Settled in Basel. 17. Basel: The Daily Round of Work. 18. The Colloquies : Chronicle of an Era. 19. From The Institution of Marriage to the Ciceronian. 20. Christ Served First. 21. Freiburg. A Voluntary Exile. 22. Freiburg. The Final Harvest. 23. Return to Basel. Farewells. 24. The Personality of Erasmus. 25. Appraisal of a Life's Work: Literature, Peace, Philosophy of Christ. 26. The Erasmian Message: From the Critique of Christianity to Critical Christianity.