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| Question | Answer |
| Who is another example of a humanist apart from good ole Erasmus? | Lorenzo Valla (1407-57) Notable work = 'Notes on the New Testament' (1440) which inspired Erasmus |
| When was Desiderius Erasmus born? When did he die? | BORN: 1467 DIED: 1536 |
| List of Erasmus's important writings? | 1500 Adages 1503 Handbook of a Christian Solider 1511 Praise of Folly 1516 The New Testament in the original Greek 1524 Freedom of the Will |
| Details of Adages (1500) GO! | over 800 adages in Latin and Greek (later expnded until it contained over 4000) All reading public could access (aim) |
| Handbook of a Christian Solider (1503) DETAILS GO GO GO GO | Written to educate Went against standards of Catholic Church widely read and translated into 11 languages |
| Praise of Folly (1511) Gimme all da juicy gossip | Most famous work - sattirical narrator 'folly' attacks failures in Catholic Church originally written in latin in 1509 |
| New Testament in Greek (1516) tell me whatcha know | Mistakes in Vulgate e.g Matthew : 'do pennance' Catholic version (one of the sacraments) corrected to 'be penitent' 2nd edition 1519 produced over 3000 copies |
| TELL ME EVERY DETAIL OF FREEDOM OF THE WILL (1524) | written to counter Luther's views Luther responded with 'On the Bondage of the Will' 1525 |
| What is a nice quote that may possibly be useful to know said by the pope's representative in Germany in 1519 | 'Erasmus laid the egg which Luther hatched' WELL AINT THAT NICE |
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