Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket. Date: 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. 0802048315 . Xxix, 744 pp. Tables of correspondents, works cited, index. Map, b/w illustrations. Large, thick octavo. Beige dust jacket with bronze medal, black text. Small chip at top joint of DJ, bit of curl at bottom edge, otherwise intact and clean. Book itself is clean and tight, very nice copy. "The letters in Volume 12 cover Erasmus' correspondence for all of 1526 and roughly the first quarter of 1527. This was a difficult period for Erasmus for various reasons, including two bouts of illness serious enough to cause him to draw up his first will in January 1527, and the fact that the Reformers were gaining more and more influence over religious policy in Basel, where he resided. Tension caused by Erasmus' open opposition to this trend was multiplied by the continuing decline in his relations with Oecolampadius, Pellicanus, and Zwingli, all of them former friends or even collaborators in his scholarly editions. These many distractions slowed but did not stop his continuing biblical, patristic, and classical scholarship. Fearing that the Lutherans might gain complete control of public discourse on the disputed issue of free will, Erasmus rushed to complete his rebuttal to Luther's De servo arbitrio in March 1526. He also felt deeply aggrieved by the attacks launched against him by conservative Catholics at a time when he was ...

Toronto University of Toronto Press 2003 First Edition Hardcover Very Good in Good dust jacket 0802048315. Xxix, 744 pp. Tables of correspondents, works cited, index. Map, b/w illustrations. Large, thick octavo. Beige dust jacket with bronze medal, black text. Small chip at top joint of DJ, bit of curl at bottom edge, otherwise intact and clean. Book itself is clean and tight, very nice copy. "The letters in Volume 12 cover Erasmus' correspondence for all of 1526 and roughly the first quarter of 1527. This was a difficult period for Erasmus for various reasons, including two bouts of illness serious enough to cause him to draw up his first will in January 1527, and the fact that the Reformers were gaining more and more influence over religious policy in Basel, where he resided. Tension caused by Erasmus' open opposition to this trend was multiplied by the continuing decline in his relations with Oecolampadius, Pellicanus, and Zwingli, all of them former friends or even collaborators in his scholarly editions. These many distractions slowed but did not stop his continuing biblical, patristic, and classical scholarship. Fearing that the Lutherans might gain complete control of public discourse on the disputed issue of free will, Erasmus rushed to complete his rebuttal to Luther's De servo arbitrio in March 1526. He also felt deeply aggrieved by the attacks launched against him by conservative Catholics at a time when he was actively engaged in opposing the spread of heresy ...