Erasmus of Rotterdam (c. 1466 1536) is one of the greatest figures of the Renaissance humanist movement, which abandoned medieval pieties in favour of a rich new vision of the individual's potential. Praise of Folly, written to amuse his friend Sir Thomas More, is Erasmus's best-known work. Its dazzling mixture of fantasy and satire is narrated by ...
Complete and quantitative, "NAPL Removal: Surfactants, Foams, and Microemulsions", belongs to a ten-monograph series that records the results of the Department of Defense/Advanced Applied Technology Demonstration Facility environmental technology demonstrations. It presents the outcome of field demonstrations of innovative in situ remediation ...
First published in Latin in 1516, Thomas More's Utopia is one of the most influential books in the Western philosophical and literary tradition and one of the supreme achievements of Renaissance humanism. This is the first edition of Utopia since 1965 (the Yale edition) to combine More's Latin text with an English translation, and also the first ...
This book contains three works by Thomas More. The first, More's Latin reply to Bugenhagen (1526), given here with facing English translation, is a rebuttal of the principal points of Lutheran teaching concerning scripture and tradition, faith and works, grace and free will, clerical celibacy, and the sacraments. It presents arguments elaborated ...
Volumes 71 -- 84 of the CWE Contain Erasmus' Arguments With His Numerous critics -- with Catholics and Protestants, with English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian critics -- on a range of theological, educational, literary, classical, social, and philological topics. Volume 83 includes four treatises: his defence against the theological ...
This volume contains More's earliest works, probably written between 1492 and 1522, including English poems, a translation and devotional adaptation of Giovanni Francesco Pico's life of his famous uncle Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, and a devotional prose work.
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