Erasmus: A Critical Biography

"Leon Halkin provides a wonderfully vivid and richly textured portrait of this great humanist." Le Quotidien de Paris "A fine biography, meticulous, detailed, reserved in it judgements ... one that brings Erasmus among us once again, and in these pages he emerges as he must have seemed in life." The Times "The best one-volume study of Erasmus in this period." Sixteenth Century Journal "This biography is perhaps the best available in English. It is meticulous and detailed with a judgement on Erasmus that is grounded in a fine grasp of the corpus of his writings. The author conveys the relevance of Erasmus's writings to the world today. For those teaching this period for A level, this book is a must." Teaching History