Erasmus of Rotterdam - Christine Christ-von Wedel Gebunden

Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466 67-1536) remains for good reason the best-known humanist of his time. He influenced reformers philosophers politicians literati legal scholars educators artists and musicians in his own as well as in later centuries and covered an astonishingly broad range of topics: war and peace politics and human dignity jurisdiction and philosophy of law church music and homiletics piety and common wisdom style and manners as well as questions of matrimony gender and education. Indeed Erasmine thought continues to influence European intellectual history to this da y. Christine Christ-von Wedel introduces Erasmus as a personality but also expands on his rich and multi-layered thinking and the struggles and longings in the age of Reformation characterised by his clashes with both Martin Luther and the Catholic establishment.