
Correspondence of Erasmus
Many of the letters in this volume, which covers the period August 1530 to March 1531, reflect Erasmus'' anxieties over events at the Diet of Augsburg (June-November 1530), at which the first of many attempts to achieve a negotiated settlement of the religious division in Germany came to a rancorous conclusion, thus fostering the fear that religious controversy would eventually lead to war. His ot...
Many of the letters in this volume, which covers the period August 1530 to March 1531, reflect Erasmus'' anxieties over events at the Diet of Augsburg (June-November 1530), at which the first of many attempts to achieve a negotiated settlement of the religious division in Germany came to a rancorous conclusion, thus fostering the fear that religious controversy would eventually lead to war. His ot...