Erasmus and the Age of Reformation


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(4.3 stars; 12 reviews)

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

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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 mpinedag
Chapter XIII. ERASMUS'S MIND (continued) 17:30 Read by mpinedag
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

Reviews


(3 stars)

Hey guys…. I cannot really hear the faintly rich voice of the person reading chapter 2 . I am autistic, but I can usually tweak something so that I can slow down or speed up a reader that I might adapt better to content or to reader. But I’ve got to say, right now I’m stumped. And I do not see a “version 2” I can skip over to for this faint chapter. My volume is at the highest, my earbuds are in, no obvious outside sounds are interfering… I welcome any ideas, fellow enthused followers of these LibriVox gifts!!!


(4 stars)

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

good book well read


(5 stars)

good book well read


(5 stars)

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.