Erasmus : intellectual of the 16th century / Nathan Ron.
Ron, Nathan, author.
2021
B785.E64 R66 2021
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Title Erasmus : intellectual of the 16th century / Nathan Ron.
Author Ron, Nathan, author.
ISBN 9783030798604 (electronic bk.)
3030798607 (electronic bk.)
3030798593
9783030798598
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79860-4
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Copyright ©2021
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-79860-4 doi
Call Number B785.E64 R66 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 199/.492
Summary This book is a sequel to Nathan Ron's Erasmus and the "Other." Should we consider Erasmus an involved or public intellectual alongside figures such as Machiavelli, Milton, Locke, Voltaire, and Montesquieu? Was Erasmus really an independent intellectual? In Ron's estimation, Erasmus did not fully live up to his professed principles of Christian peace. Despite the anti-war preaching so eminent in his writings, he made no stand against the warlike and expansionist foreign policies of specific European kings of his era, and even praised the glory won by Francis I on the battlefield of Marignano (1515). Furthermore, in the face of Henry VIIIs execution of his beloved Thomas More and John Fisher, and the atrocities committed by the Spanish against indigenous peoples in the New World, Erasmus preferred self-censorship to expressions of protest or criticism and did not step forward to reproach kings of their misdeeds or crimes. Nathan Ron is Research Fellow at the School of History, The University of Haifa, Israel
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Intro
Preface
Acknowledgments
Contents
Abbreviations
Chapter 1: Introduction: Prefiguring the Modern Intellectual?
The Ethical Test
Intellectuals in Public Life
Chapter 2: The Public Good
Chapter 3: An Intellectual Against Crusading
Chapter 4: Erasmus on the Education and Nature of Women
Chapter 5: In the Face of the Execution of Thomas More
Chapter 6: In the Face of Francis I's Foreign policy
Chapter 7: In the Face of the Destruction of the Amerindians
Chapter 8: Erasmus's Turkophobic Bias

Chapter 9: Erasmus and Reuchlin: The Jews and their Language
Chapter 10: Conclusions: Only Sparks Fly Upward
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