Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466/67–1536) remains, for good reason, the best-known humanist of his time. He influenced reformers, philosophers, politicians, literati, legal scholars, educators, artists and ...

Five hundred fifty years ago today, on October 26, 1515, Desiderius Erasmus was born. Actually, although many historians think he was born on the 26th, some scholars think he was born on October 27th ...

This text aims to investigate the characterization of state (respublica) in Erasmus of Rotterdam. For that, we consider the critical Latin version text of the Querela Pacis declamation and the mirror ...

A newly catalogued 1541 book, written by Erasmus (left) has pages ripped out, text blotted out with ink and two pages glued together. This book is now in the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the ...

On this day in 1536, Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam died at Basel. He was 69 years old. This year is the 500th anniversary of the printing of The Praise of Folly, the famous essay addressed to Thomas ...

AMSTERDAM — The Netherlands Humanistic Association declined to condemn the anti-Semitism of pioneering humanist Catholic theologian Erasmus of Rotterdam. Hans Jansen, a former minister of the Dutch ...

We're now bringing our live coverage of the Rotterdam shootings to a close. Thanks for joining us. The page was edited by Alex Therrien and the writers were Ali Abbas Ahmadi, Barbara Tasch, James ...

How to deal with the Trump-supporting working class? Since the election, that question has rippled through liberal circles. Should white workers be condemned and quarantined, or cultivated and ...