+ PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

"The Praise of Folly (Norton Critical Editions) Book

Besides the celebrated Praise of Folly, Robert M. Adams has included the political "Complaint of Peace," the brutal antipapal satire "Julius Excluded from Heaven," two versions of Erasmus’s important preface to the Latin translation of the New Testament, and a selection both serious and comic of his Colloquies and his letters.  Adams has made these selections to emphasize the humane, rather than the doctrinaire, side of the first and arguably greatest humanist.Critical commentary is provided in essays by H. R. Trevor-Roper, R. S. Allen, J. Huizinga, Mikhail Bakhtin, Paul Oskar Kristeller, and Robert M. Adams.Also included are a Chronology of Erasmus’s life and a Selected Bibliography.Read More

from£8.95 | RRP: £8.99
* Excludes Voucher Code Discount Also available Used from £7.15
  • Blackwell

    This Norton Critical Edition provides a wide selection of Erasmus's writings, translated from the Latin into fresh, modern English. Besides the celebrated Praise of Folly, Robert M. Adams has included the political Complaint of Peace...

  • 0393957497
  • 9780393957495
  • DESIDERIUS ERASMUS
  • 31 January 1990
  • W. W. Norton & Co.
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 352
  • Critical edition
As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. If you click through any of the links below and make a purchase we may earn a small commission (at no extra cost to you). Click here to learn more.

Would you like your name to appear with the review?

We will post your book review within a day or so as long as it meets our guidelines and terms and conditions. All reviews submitted become the licensed property of www.find-book.co.uk as written in our terms and conditions. None of your personal details will be passed on to any other third party.

All form fields are required.