Erasmus

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 ...