<span>This volume comprises Erasmus' correspondence during the final two years of his life, June 1534βAugust 1536. In the public sphere it was a time of dramatic events: the reconquest of the duchy WΓΌrttemberg from its Austrian occupiers; the siege and destruction of the Anabaptist "kingdom" at MΓΌns
The Correspondence of Erasmus: Letters 2940 to 3141, Volume 21
β Scribed by Desiderius Erasmus (editor); James M. Estes (editor); Alexander Dalzell (editor)
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Year
- 2021
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 692
- Series
- Collected Works of Erasmus; 21
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
This final volume of the Correspondence subseries of the Collected Works of Erasmus includes the letters from Erasmusβ final years.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
<p>This volume includes Erasmusβs correspondence for the months April 1532 to April 1533.</p>
<p>An exchange of letters between Juan de Vergara and Diego LΓ³pez ZΓΊΓ±iga which bears on the controversy then raging between Erasmus and ZΓΊΓ±iga is included as an appendix to this volume.</p>
<p>Many of the letters in this volume, which covers the period August 1530 to March 1531, reflect Erasmus' anxieties over events at the Diet of Augsburg (June-November 1530).</p>
<p>The letters in this volume reflect Erasmusβ anxiety about the endemic warfare in Western Europe, the advance of the Ottoman Turks into Europe, and the increasing threat of armed conflict between Catholics and Protestants in Germany.</p>
<p>The predominant theme of the letters of 1528 is Erasmus' controversies with a variety of critics and opponents.</p>