Erasmus and the Age of Reformation


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(4.3 étoiles; 12 critiques)

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 Lu par Owlivia
Chapter II. IN THE MONASTERY, 1488-95 23:00 Lu par Trenton
Chapter III. THE UNIVERSITY OF PARIS, 1495-9 21:15 Lu par Trenton
Chapter IV. FIRST STAY IN ENGLAND, 1499-1500 25:04 Lu par Trenton
Chapter V. ERASMUS AS A HUMANIST 19:31 Lu par Trenton
Chapter VI. THEOLOGICAL ASPIRATIONS, 1501 17:08 Lu par Owlivia
Chapter VII. YEARS OF TROUBLE—LOUVAIN, PARIS, ENGLAND, 1502-6 17:58 Lu par Minnie
Chapter VIII. IN ITALY, 1506-9 18:55 Lu par Rita Boutros
Chapter IX. THE PRAISE OF FOLLY 27:24 Lu par Rita Boutros
Chapter X. THIRD STAY IN ENGLAND, 1509-14 21:22 Lu par Michele Eaton
Chapter XI. A LIGHT OF THEOLOGY, 1514-16 29:20 Lu par Owlivia
Chapter XII. ERASMUS'S MIND 18:49 Lu par mpinedag
Chapter XIII. ERASMUS'S MIND (continued) 17:30 Lu par mpinedag
Chapter XIV. ERASMUS'S CHARACTER 31:29 Lu par Trenton
Chapter XV. AT LOUVAIN, 1517-18 23:22 Lu par Jim Locke
Chapter XVI. FIRST YEARS OF THE REFORMATION 30:55 Lu par Craig Campbell
Chapter XVII. ERASMUS AT BASLE, 1521-9 26:49 Lu par Rita Boutros
Chapter XVIII. CONTROVERSY WITH LUTHER AND GROWING CONSERVATISM, 1524-6 19:24 Lu par Owlivia
Chapter XIX. AT WAR WITH HUMANISTS AND REFORMERS, 1528-9 25:44 Lu par Kazbek
Chapter XX. LAST YEARS 23:44 Lu par Kazbek
Chapter XXI. CONCLUSION 17:31 Lu par Wayne Cooke

Critiques


(3 étoiles)

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 étoiles)

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

good book well read


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good book well read


(5 étoiles)

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.