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ARRoGANT CoURiERS WiTH ESSaYS
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Grade Level: Type of Work Subject/Topic is on:
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[ ]6-8 [ ]Class Notes [Essay on the humanist ]
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[x]9-10 [ ]Cliff Notes [Desiderius Erasmus ]
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[ ]11-12 [x]Essay/Report [ ]
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[ ]College [ ]Misc [ ]
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Dizzed: 08/94 # of Words:586 School:Public State:NY
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Desiderius Erasmus was one of the great humanists. He was well
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educated and practice scholasticism. He was also a great writer, who wrote
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books of many types. He is even called the greatest European scholar of the
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16th century (Britannica Macropedia). He was also courageous, as he
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criticized the Church harshly. It was said by R. C. Trench that "Erasmus
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laid the egg of the Reformation and Luther hatched it."
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Erasmus was the illegitimate son of a priest named Gerard. This fact
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would haunt him for his entire life. He feared that, if this fact was
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widely known, his life would be ruined. Therefore, there has been much
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confusion about his early life. It has been discerned that he as born in
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Gouda, Holland in 1469 and that he had a brother. Erasmus tried to keep all
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these facts hidden, confusing modern day historians. He died in 1536.
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Erasmus's writings included The Praise of Folly, a satire which pointed
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out major problems in the clergy, saying that monks were beggars, the
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clergy was greedy, and that the pope had no resemblance to the Apostles. He
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also wrote a short satirical skit in which Pope Julius II had trouble
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getting into heaven. In the skit, Pope Julius II is made out to be more of
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a Muslim than a Catholic. Writing this had to take considerable courage,
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for, though the Church was in decline, it still had considerable power. He
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also published the Greek version of the New Testament in Latin, so
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Europeans could read it.
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Erasmus was a traveller. He lived in many places in Europe at different
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times. He had lived in Rome, Paris, England, and many other European
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countries. His worked as a writer, but was dependant on gifts of nobles as
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most writers of the time were. In his travels he befriended many humanists.
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Erasmus became a humanist because of his education. He studied both
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ancient Greek and Latin. He had tried to be monk and a priest, but could
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not. He went to Paris where he mastered Latin. He received a good education
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there. This education, combined with his morality, made him a great
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humanist. He had both the knowledge and the ethics to criticize the Church
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(a person who lacked ethics and criticized the Church would be a
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hypocrite).
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Surprisingly, Erasmus was both tolerant and a pacifist. He, apparently,
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picked up these traits when in England. I find this extremely unusual and
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admirable, considering that, at that time, it was considered wrong for a
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person to be tolerant. I imagine that Erasmus had to be tolerant, as he
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visited many places in his lifetime, some Anglican, some Catholic, some
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Lutheran, and probably some Calvinist settlements also.
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Erasmus was one of the great humanists of the 1500's. His books were
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widely read, so his ideas were spread throughout Europe. His criticism of
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the Church was therefore heard throughout Europe. He preferred reasoning to
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bloodshed, unlike many others of his time. While he did not criticize the
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Church as much as Luther had, he did call for an end to the corruption
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which had seeped to the core of the Church.
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In my opinion, Erasmus was a great man . He reasoned while others
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fought. He was courageous in his criticism of the Church. He had morality
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and was well educated. He was a pacifist and a man of tolerance. I can only
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say that he was a great man and a superb humanist.
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