Contents

• Abbreviations
• Preface

• Introduction
• 1.  Bonae Literae
  • 1. The Burgundian-Habsburg Low Countries
  • 2. Erasmus Against the Barbarians
  • 3. The Ideal of Christian Civility
  • 4. Between Wisdom and Folly
• 2.  Philosophia Christi
  • 5. Reformers of Doctrina
  • 6.  “The Name of Erasmus Will Never Perish”
  • 7.  “The Most Corrupt Generation There Has Ever Been”
  • 8. The Philosophy of Christ
  • 9. In Defense of Bonae Literae
• 3. Second Thoughts, 1521-1536
  • 10. Christian Liberty in the Catholic Church
  • 11. A Reformation Gone Wrong
  • 12. The Parable of the Tares
  • 13. Circumspect Reformer
  • 14. Erasmus and His Readers
• Conclusion

• 1. Chronology of Erasmus’s Life
• 2. Erasmus’s Works Discussed in the Text
• Bibliography of Works Cited