Against War

Dutch thinker and theologian Desiderius Erasmus played a key role in the development of humanism ...

Desiderius Erasmus: Der sprichwörtliche Weltbürger

Ich liebe die Freiheit. Ich will und kann keiner Partei dienen.Desiderius Erasmus von Rotterd...

Against War

Erasmus considers war to be an unmitigated evil, which should only be turned to as a last resort....

The Praise of Folly

In 'The Praise of Folly' by Desiderius Erasmus, the reader is presented with a satirical treatise...

In Praise of Folly

In Praise of Folly is an essay written in Latin in 1509 by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam and fi...

Manual of a Christian Knight

We get some sense of things which were moving deeply in Erasmus' life from his 'Manual of a Chris...

The Complaint of Peace

Desiderius Erasmus was a very human man. A humanist, who was no more humane than the rest of the ...

In Praise of Folly

In Praise of Folly is an essay written in Latin in 1509 by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam and fi...

Against War

A classic anti-war essay from the mid-1500s. Erasmus gives elegant arguments against war from bot...

The Colloquies, Volume 1

Erasmus' services to a new way of learning took various forms. He wrote school-books, bringing ou...

The Praise of Folly

Erasmus reached England after a stay in Italy early in the summer of 1510. Soon afterwards, in Th...

Against War