The Erasmus Page


( 1466-1536 )
Major Works
Desiderius Erasmus, The Praise of Folly and Other Writings. Chosen, translated, and edited by Robert M. Adams. Norton, 1989. See also The Essential Erasmus. Selected and translated with introduction and commentary by John Dolan. Meridian, 1983.
Enchiridion (1503). Translated as The Handbook of the Militant Christian in The Essential Erasmus (above ). The basis for a humanist's Christian faith.
Colloquies. Ten Colloquies of Erasmus. Translated, with an introduction and notes, by Craig R. Thompson. Library of Liberal Arts, 1957.
Praise of Folly (1509). Translated by John Wilson. 1668. Reprinted, Michigan, 1958.
Translated from the Latin, with an essay and commentary, by Hoyt Hopewell Hudson. Princeton, 1941.
Translated with an introduction and commentary by Clarence H. Miller. Chicago, 1979. Translated in The Praise of Folly and Other Writings (above). Translated by Betty Radice with an introduction and notes by A.H.T. Levi. Penguin, Revised 1993.
Letter to Maarten Van Dorp (1515). Included in translations of Praise of Folly by Betty Radice, Clarence H. Miller, and Robert M. Adams.
An edition of the Greek New Testament with Latin translation ( 1516). Forewords to the first and third editions appear in Adama' Praise of Folly and Other Writings (above).
The Complaint of Peace (1517). Translated in Praise of Folly and Other Writings (above).
On Free Will (1524) and Luther's Bondage of the Will are conveniently collected in Erasmus-Luther, Discourse on Free Will. Translated and edited by Ernst F. Winter. Continuum, 1996.
Complete On-Line Works. From Sewanee.

About Erasmus
James McConica, Erasmus. Oxford, 1991. Intended as an introduction to its subject.
An Erasmus Page

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