Exploiting Erasmus examines the legacy of Erasmus in England from the mid-sixteenth century to the overthrow of James II in 1688 and studies the various ways in which his works were received, manipulated, and used in religious controversies ...

... Erasmian , " Glotta 53 , no . 1/2 ( 1975 ) : 83 . 12. Morwood , Classical Greek , 7 . 13. Ingram Bywater , The Erasmian Pronunciation of Greek and Its Precursors : Jerome Aleander , Aldus Manutius , Antonio of Lebrixa : A Lecture ...

This book invites you to see not only how Hellenistic Koine ought to be pronounced but also why.

Shakespeare explored this question in Measure for Measure at a time when the humanist consensus of roughly a century's duration in English culture seemed about to be eclipsed by a hardening of the positions of people who held opposing views ...

... Erasmian thought . It remains to consider whether any one aspect may be regarded as the essence of Erasmianism . The designation ' Erasmian ' is not modern , but was coined in the sixteenth century . The very use of the term suggests ...

... Erasmian pronun- ciation , the matter presents also a very sad aspect . The intro- duction of the Erasmian absurdity was the death - blow to the knowledge of living Greek in Western Europe . Greek was only read , but no longer spoken ...

... Erasmian humanism ever had as applied to England . " He shows that Erasmus always pursued transcendental withdrawal , rather than the cut and thrust of the court . At most , Erasmus counselled those who would involve themselves in ...

... Erasmian ideas in the peninsula and to the repression of his supporters . The converse Juan de Vergara was imprisoned in 1533. Pedro Lerma , the Erasmian chancellor of Alcala , was forced to re- sign in 1537. Cardinal Manrique , the ...

... Erasmian republic cannot be seen as a natural outgrowth of humanism, that the autonomy of Erasmian humanism was not a given. The Republic of Letters was rather an artificial construction, the response by a specific group of humanists to ...