Collected Works of Erasmus Volume 72: Controversies: Apologia Qua Repondet Invectivis Lei Responsio Ad Annotationes Lei

Desiderius Erasmus; Jane E. Phillips [ed]

ISBN 10: 0802038360 / ISBN 13: 9780802038364

Published by University of Toronto Press, 2005

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A little shelf wear to book and dust jacket. Dust jacket has a 2 inch closed tear at top of front panel. Ink date on fly leaf. Some HIGHLIGHTING and MARKINGS in text. Otherwise a nice solid volume. Index. xxxvii, 449 pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Collected Works of Erasmus Volume 72: Controversies: Apologia Qua Repondet Invectivis Lei Responsio Ad Annotationes Lei
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802038360
• ISBN 13: 9780802038364
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good+
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  • Philosophy

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Synopsis

In 1520, the reading public witnessed the eruption of a simmering conflict between Erasmus, the foremost advocate of the new biblical humanism, and Edward Lee, a younger scholar at the University of Louvain and spokesman for the traditionalists in matters of biblical interpretation and church discipline. When Erasmus (perhaps unconsciously) subsumed criticisms Lee had sent to him of his 1516 Annotations on the New Testament into the second edition (1519) without properly crediting their source, Lee resorted to publication of his collection of criticisms.

Erasmus responded immediately with the Apologia which is neither arrogant nor biting nor angry nor aggressive, and which responds to the two invectives of Edward Lee, describing his version of the history of the dispute with Lee, and less than two months later produced Responses to Lee's criticisms. This new volume in the Collected Works of Erasmus series contains the first-ever English translations of the Apology and the Responses. These two pieces display Erasmus the humanist in the thick of academic turmoil, deploying all the rhetorical weapons at his command. The volume is an entertaining and informative look into Erasmus as a scholar and as a man.

Volume 72 of the Collected Works of Erasmus series.

About the Authors

Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536), a Dutch humanist, Catholic priest, and scholar, was one of the most influential Renaissance figures. A professor of divinity and Greek, Erasmus wrote, taught, and travelled, meeting with Europe’s foremost scholars. A prolific author, Erasmus wrote on both ecclesiastic and general human interest subjects.


Jane E. Phillips is a retired professor of classics at the University of Kentucky and the translator of the Paraphrase on John and Paraphrase on Luke 11–24 in the Collected Works of Erasmus.

Erika Rummel is a professor emerita in the Department of History at Wilfrid Laurier University.

Istvan Bejczy is an associate professor in the Department of History at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen.