The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Age of Erasmus, by P. S. Allen This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London Author: P. S. Allen Release Date: May 10, 2005 [EBook #15810] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE AGE OF ERASMUS *** Produced by Jonathan Ingram and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON EDINBURGH GLASGOW NEW YORK TORONTO MELBOURNE BOMBAY HUMPHREY MILFORD M.A. PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY THE AGE OF ERASMUS LECTURES DELIVERED IN THE UNIVERSITIES OF OXFORD AND LONDON BY P.S. ALLEN, M.A. FELLOW OF MERTON COLLEGE, OXFORD OXFORD AT THE CLARENDON PRESS 1914 CONTENTS I. THE ADWERT ACADEMY II. SCHOOLS III. MONASTERIES IV. UNIVERSITIES V. ERASMUS' LIFE-WORK VI. FORCE AND FRAUD VII. PRIVATE LIFE AND MANNERS VIII. THE POINT OF VIEW IX. PILGRIMAGES X. THE TRANSALPINE RENAISSANCE XI. ERASMUS AND THE BOHEMIAN BRETHREN p 7INDEX I THE ADWERT ACADEMY The importance of biography for the study of history can hardly be overrated.