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Selections from Erasmus by Erasmus Roterodamus</H1> Selections from Erasmus by Erasmus Roterodamus Selections from Erasmus by Erasmus Roterodamus Produced by David Starner, Thomas Berger, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. SELECTIONS FROM ERASMUS Principally From His Epistles By P. S. ALLEN * * * * * PREFACE The selections in this volume are taken mainly from the Letters of Erasmus. Latin was to him a living language; and the easy page 1 / 231 straightforwardness with which he addresses himself to what he has to say, whether in narrating the events of every-day life or in developing more serious themes, makes his works suitable reading for beginners. To the rapidity with which he invariably wrote is due a certain laxity, principally in the use of moods and tenses; and his spelling is that of the Renaissance. These matters I have brought to some extent into conformity with classical usage; and in a few other ways also I have taken necessary liberties with the text. In the choice of passages I have been guided for the most part by a desire to illustrate through them English life at a period of exceptional interest in our history. There has never been wanting a succession of persons who concerned themselves to chronicle the deeds of kings and the fortunes of war; but history only becomes intelligible when we can place these exalted events in their right setting by understanding what men both small and great were doing and thinking in their private lives. To Erasmus we owe much intimate knowledge of the age in which he lived; and of none of his contemporaries has he given us more vivid pictures than of the great Englishmen, Henry VIII, Colet, More, and many others, whom he delighted to claim as friends. With this purpose in view I have thought it best to confine the historical commentary within a narrow compass in the scenes which are not drawn from England; and to leave unillustrated many distinguished names, due appreciation of which would have overloaded the notes and confused the reader. page 2 / 231 The vocabulary is intended to include all words not to be found in Dr. Lewis's _Elementary Latin Dictionary_, with the exception of (1) those which with the necessary modification have become English, (2) classical words used for modern counterparts without possibility of confusion, e. g. _templum_ for _church_; (3) diminutives--a mode of expression which both Erasmus and modern writers use very freely--as to the origin of which there can be no doubt. Mr. Kenneth Forbes of St. John's College has kindly gone through the whole of the text with me, and has given me the benefit of his long experience as a teacher. I am also obliged to him for most valuable assistance in the preparation of the notes. LONGWALL, COTTAGE, OXFORD. June 1908. In a second edition I have been able to incorporate a few of the corrections and suggestions made by reviewers and friends. My thanks are especially due to the Warden of Wadham and to Mr. Hugo Sharpley, head master of Richmond Grammar School, Yorks. 23 MERTON STREET, OXFORD. June 1, 1918. * * * * * page 3 / 231 CONTENTS LIFE OF ERASMUS I. AN ORDINATION EXAMINATION II. A DOMESTIC AFFRAY (55 : 47) III. A WINTER JOURNEY (88 : 82) IV. AN ENGLISH COUNTRY-HOUSE (103 : 98) V. A VISIT TO COURT (I. p. 6 : i. p. 201) VI. ERASMUS AT OXFORD (115 : 104) VII. AN OXFORD DINNER PARTY (116 : 105) VIII. LEARNING IN ENGLAND (118 : 110) IX. A JOURNEY TO PARIS (119 : 122) page 4 / 231 X. ERASMUS RENDERS ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF TO COLET (181 : 180) XI. A VISIT TO LAMBETH (I. pp. 4-5 : i. p.393) XII. A LETTER TO ALDUS (207 : 204) XIII. AN INTERVIEW WITH GRIMANI ( :i. p. 461) XIV. A CONVERSATION AT CAMBRIDGE (237 : 231) XV. AN ENCOUNTER WITH CANOSSA XVI. ERASMUS' APOLOGIA PRO VITA SUA (296 : 290) XVII. ERASMUS' RECEPTION AT BASEL (305 : 298) XVIII. BISHOP FISHER (457 : 446) XIX. A JOURNEY FROM BASEL TO LOUVAIN (867 : ) XX. ENGLISH UNIVERSITIES (965 : ) page 5 / 231 XXI. AN EXPLOSION AT BASEL XXII. ARCHBISHOP WARHAM. I XXIII. ARCHBISHOP WARHAM. II XXIV. THE LIVES OF VITRARIUS AND COLET XXV. COLET AND HIS KINSMAN XXVI. THOMAS MORE ( :585B) XXVII. A DISHONEST LONDONER XXVIII. THE CONDITION OF ENGLISH HOUSES XXIX. FISHER'S STUDY AT ROCHESTER NOTES VOCABULARY page 6 / 231 LIST OF PLACE-NAMES (Of the figures in brackets, the first give the references to my _Opus Epistolarum Erasmi_, the second to the late Mr. F. M. Nichols' _Epistles of Erasmus_.) * * * * * LIFE OF ERASMUS Erasmus of Rotterdam was born on October 27, probably in 1466. His father belonged to Gouda, a little town near Rotterdam, and after some schooling there and an interval during which he was a chorister in Utrecht Cathedral, Erasmus was sent to Deventer, to the principal school in the town, which was attached to St. Lebuin's Church. The renewed interest in classical learning which had begun in Italy in the fourteenth century had as yet been scarcely felt in Northern Europe, and education was still dominated by the requirements of Philosophy and Theology, which were regarded as the highest branches of knowledge. A very high degree of subtlety in thought and argument had been reached, and in order that the youthful student might be fitted to enter this arena, it was necessary that he should be trained from the outset in its requirements. In the schools, in consequence, little attention was paid to the form in which thought was expressed, provided that the thought was correct: in marked contrast to the classical ideal, which emphasized the importance of page 7 / 231 expression, in just appreciation of the fact that thought expressed in obscure or inadequate words, fails to reach the human mind. The mediaeval position had been the outcome of a reaction against the spirit of later classical times, which had sacrificed matter to form. And now the pendulum was swinging back again in a new attempt to adjust the rival claims. The education which Erasmus received at Deventer was still in thraldom to the mediaeval ideal. Greek was practically unknown, and in Latin all that was required of the student was a sufficient mastery of the rudiments of grammar to enable him to express somehow the distinctions and refinements of thought for which he was being trained. Niceties of scholarship and amplitude of vocabulary were unnecessary to him and were disregarded. From a material point of view also education was hampered. Printing was only just beginning, and there were few, if any, schoolbooks to be had. Lectures and lessons still justified their name 'readings'; for the boys sat in class crowded round their master, diligently copying down the words that fell from his lips, whether he were dictating a chapter in grammar, with its rules of accidence and syntax, or at a later stage a passage from a Latin author with his own or the traditional comments. Their canon of the classics was widely different from ours; instead of the simplified Caesar or Ovid that is now set before the schoolboy, Terence occupied a principal position, being of the first importance to an age when the learned still spoke Latin. Portions of the historians were read, for their worldly wisdom rather than for their history; Pliny the Elder for his natural science, and Boethius for his mathematics; and for poetry Cato's moral distiches and Baptista of Mantua, 'the Christian page 8 / 231 Vergil.' In this atmosphere Erasmus's early years were spent; but from some of his masters he caught the breath of the new life that came from Italy, and this he never lost. By 1485, shortly after he had left Deventer, both his parents were dead, and a few years later he was persuaded to enter the monastery of Steyn, near Gouda, a house of Augustinian canons. The life there was uncongenial to him; for though he had leisure to read as much as he liked, his temperament was not suited to the precision and regularity of religious observance. An opportunity for escape presented itself, when the Bishop of Cambray, a powerful ecclesiastic, was inquiring for a Latin secretary. Erasmus, who had already become very facile with his pen, obtained the post and for a year or more discharged its duties. At length in 1495 he persuaded the Bishop to fulfil a desire which he had long cherished, and send him with a stipend to a University. He went to Paris and began reading for a Doctor's degree in Theology. But the course was too cramping, and he therefore used his opportunity to educate himself more widely; eking out the Bishop's grant by taking pupils. It was a hard life, and his health was delicate; but he did not flinch from his task, doing just enough paid work--and no more--to keep himself alive and to buy books. In 1499 one of his pupils, a young Englishman, Lord Mountjoy, brought him to England for a visit, and in the autumn sent him for a month or two to Oxford. There he fell in with Colet, a man of strong character and intellect, who was giving a new impulse to the study of the Bible by historical treatment. Colet's enthusiasm encouraged page 9 / 231 Erasmus in the direction to which he was already inclined; and when he returned to Paris in 1500, it was with the determination to apply his whole energy to classical learning, and especially to the study of Theology, which in the new world opening before him was still to be the queen of sciences. For the next four years he was working hard, teaching himself Greek and reading whatever he could find, at Paris or, when the plague drove him thence, at Orleans or Louvain.
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