Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam

by Ephraim Emerton

INDEX

A

• Adages, first edition, [88]-[91]
  • Aldine edition, [136]
• Adrian, Hebrew teacher, [266], [267]
• Adrian VI., pope, [403]
• Agricola, Rudolf, [7]
• Albert of Mainz, [291]
  • letter to, [309]-[318]
• Aldus Manutius, [125]
  • correspondence with Erasmus, [134]-[137]
  • his printing-office, [138]
• Aleander, Girolamo, at Venice, [143]
  • at Louvain, [349]
• Alexander of Scotland, Archbishop of St. Andrews, [144], [146]
  • death, [153]
• Algerus, treatise on the Eucharist, [410]
• Amerbach, Boniface, executor, [460]
• Amerbach, the brothers, [236]
• Ammonius, Andreas, correspondence with Erasmus, [187]-[192], [262], [263]
• Andrelinus, Faustus, [41]
  • letter from Erasmus, [80]
  • writes a preface to the Adages, [93]
• Apophthegmata, [451]
• Aquinas, Thomas, Erasmus' and Colet's views of, [72]
• d'Asola, Andreas, [138]-[140]
• d'Asola, Francesco, [139], [141]
• Atensis, John, [264]
• Augsburg Confession, [401]
• Augsburg, Diet at, [444]-[448]
• Augustinianism, [278], [283]-[285], [380]-[383]
• Augustinus, pupil of Erasmus, [93]

B

• Badius, publisher at Paris, [134]
• Basel, residence in, [232]-[240], [347], [441]-[443], [456] sqq.
• Battus, James, [48]
  • correspondence with Erasmus, [48]-[58]
  • death, [61]
• Beatus Rhenanus, [239]
  • letter to, [241]-[246]
• Bedda, Natalis, [428]
• Berquin, Louis de, [428]-[432]
• Berlin, St., abbot of, [223]
• Besançon, letter to magistrate of, [456]
• Bois-le-Duc ('s Hertogenbosch), school at, [8]
• Bologna, visit to, [130]-[135]
• Botzheim, John, canon of Constance, letter to (catalogus lucubrationum), [126]
  • visit to, [352], [356]
• Brethren of the Common Life, [8]
• Budæus, William, letter from, [248]
  • letter to, [251], [427]
• Busleiden, Jerome, founder of the College of the Three Languages, [265]

C

• Cambrai, bishop of and residence in, [6], [33], [41]
• Cambridge, life at, [193]-[195]
• Caminga, Haio, [443]
• Campeggio, Cardinal, letters to, [302], [405]
• Carteromachos, Scipio, [148]
• Charles I. of Spain (V. of Germany), makes Erasmus a councillor, [253], [262]
  • elected emperor, [343]-[345]
  • holds the Diet at Worms, [345], [346]
• Ciceronianus, treatise on rhetoric, selection from, [149]-[151]
• Cinicampius (Eschenfeld), [243]
  • letter from Erasmus, [246], [247]
• Clement VII., pope, letter to, [404]
• Clyston, attendant of Erasmus' pupils, [125], [127], [136]
• Colet, John, [64], [65]
  • teacher at Oxford, [68]
  • founder of St. Paul's school, [70]
  • his character, [71]-[75]
  • invites Erasmus to teach at Oxford, [82]-[86]
  • correspondence of 1511(?)-1512, [195]-[200]
  • present at Canterbury "pilgrimage," [217]
• Collége Montaigu, [34]-[39]
• Comparison of the Virgin and the Martyr, [436], [437]
• Compendium Vitæ, [4]
• Complutensian Polyglot, [201]
• Constance, visit at, [352]
• Cop, William, [250]
• Copia verborum et rerum, dedication, [197]
  • analysis of, [208]-[214]
• Cornelius, companion of Erasmus at Steyn, [14]

D

• Dante, De Monarchia, [274]
• De contemptu mundi, treatise, [20]-[22], [28]
• Deventer, school at, [5]-[7]
• Diversoria, colloquy describing inns, [127], [226]-[231]
• Dorpius, Martin, criticises the Praise of Folly, [176], [264]
• Dürer, Albert, diary of, [333], [334]

E

• Ecclesiastes, [453], [454]
• Egmund, Carmelite at Louvain, [322], [428]
• Enchiridion militis Christiani, origin, [96], [97]
  • analysis of, [98]-[111]
  • preface to second edition, [111]-[115]
  • its teaching, [286]
• England, life in, [62]-[86], [179] sqq.
• Epistolæ obscurorum virorum, [279], [363]
• Eppendorf, Henry, [352]
• Erasmus, nationality, [1]-[3]
  • birth, [3]
  • at Gouda, [5]
  • at Utrecht, [5]
  • at Deventer, [5]-[8]
  • at 's Hertogenbosch, [8], [9]
  • at Steyn, [15]-[23]
  • with the bishop of Cambrai, [26]
  • ordained priest, [33], n.
  • at Paris, [33]-[40]
  • return to Cambrai, [41]
  • troubles at Paris, [42]-[47]
  • correspondence with Battus, [48]-[58]
  • visit to Tournehens, [54]
  • at Louvain, [61]
  • in England, [62]-[86]
  • at Orleans, [92]
  • views on war, [118], [128]
  • goes to Italy, [125]
  • Doctor's degree, [128]
  • in Bologna, [130]-[135]
  • life at Venice, [137]-[143]
  • at Padua, [144]
  • at Siena, [146]
  • at Rome, [146]-[156]
  • English residence (1509-1514), [179]-[217]
  • correspondence with Ammonius, [187]-[192]
  • "Professor" at Cambridge, [193]-[195]
  • literary work in England, [197]-[217]
  • letter to Servatius, [218]-[224]
  • journeys, [226]-[231], [241]-[246]
  • at Basel, [232]-[240]
  • called to Ingolstadt and elsewhere, [247]
  • offered a bishopric, [248]
  • called to Paris, [248]-[253]
  • made councillor of Charles V., [253]-[255]
  • settles at Louvain, [264]
  • his view of the Reform, [285]-[288]
  • view of indulgences, [292]
  • letter to Wolsey, [298]-[301]
  • to Campeggio, [302]
  • to Leo X., [303]-[307]
  • to Albert of Mainz, [309]-[319]
  • to Hoogstraaten, [326]-[329]
  • removal to Basel, [347]
  • letter to Laurinus, [347]-[361]
  • visit to Constance, [352]
  • contest with Hutten, [362]-[378]
  • the free-will controversy, [383]-[401]
  • the Eucharist controversy, [407]-[418]
  • relations with Berquin, [428]-[432]
  • life at Basel, [441]-[443]
  • goes to Freiburg in Breisgau, [444]
  • relation to Augsburg Diet, [444]-[448]
  • buys a house, [449]
  • his place in the Index, [454], [455]
  • return to Basel, [456]
  • death, [457]-[459]
  • last will, [460]
  • final estimate of, [460]-[463]
• Ernest of Bavaria, invites Erasmus to Ingolstadt, [247]
• Eschenfeld (Cinicampius), [243]
  • letter from Erasmus, [246], [247]
• Eucharist, history of, [407]
  • Luther's view, [407]-[409]
  • Erasmus on, [409]-[418]
• Expostulatio cum Erasmo of Hutten, [366]-[372]

F

• Familiar Colloquies, [420]-[423]
  • attacked by the Sorbonne and by Luther, [424]
  • condemned at Paris and in England, [433]
• Ferdinand of Spain, [119]
• Fisher, Robert, [63]
• Francis I., King of France, calls Erasmus to Paris, [248]-[253]
• Fratres Collationarii, [10]
• Frederic the Wise, Elector of Saxony, letter to, [325]
  • interview with, [326]
  • imperial candidate, [344]
• Free will, the problem of, [381]-[384]
  • essay on, [384], [387]-[397]
  • Luther on, [398]-[401]
• Freiburg in Breisgau, residence at, [441]-[456]
• Froben, John, first acquaintance with Erasmus, [232]
  • character, [233]-[235]
• Froben, John Erasmius, [421]

G

• Gaguinus, [41]
• Gerard, father of Erasmus, [4]
• Gerhardt of Nymwegen, [428]
• Goclenius, Conrad, letters to, [4], [267], [458]
• Gouda, life at, [5]
• Grey, Thomas, [43]
• Grimani, Cardinal, [151]
  • receives Erasmus, [154]-[156]
  • letter to, [224]
• Grocyn, William, [64], [81]
• Groot, Gerard, [8]
• Grunnius, Lambertus, letter to, [xiv], [4], [11], [19], [21], [130]
  • reply of, [132]

H

• Hedio, Caspar, letter to, [379]
• Hegius, Alexander, [6]
• Hermann, William, [23], [47]
• 's Hertogenbosch (Bois-le-Duc), school at, [8]
• Hoogstraaten, Jacob, letter to, [326]-[329]
• Hutten, Ulrich von, [361]-[363]
  • controversy with Erasmus, [363]-[378]
  • letter from, [364]
  • the Expostulatio, [366]-[372]
  • Erasmus' Spongia, [372]-[378]

I

• "Index," papal, [454], [455]
• Indulgences, Luther's Theses on, [289]-[291]
  • Erasmus on, [292], [293]
• Inghirami, Tommaso, [149]
• Ingolstadt, call to, [247]
• Institution of Christian Marriage, [433]-[435]
• Institutio Principis Christiani, [255]-[262]
  • its teaching, [286]
• Italy, life in, [125] sqq.
• Ἰχθυοφαγία, colloquy of Erasmus, [35]-[40]

J

• Jerome, St., edition of, [68], [205]
• Joanna of Spain, [119]

K

• à Kempis, Thomas, [8]

L

• Lascaris, Johannes, [143]
  • letter to, [265]
• à Lasco, John, letter to, [417], [418]
• Laurinus, Marcus, letters to, [254], [347]-[361]
• Lee, Edward, [427]
• Leo X., dedication of New Testament to, [271]
  • letter to, [302]
• Linacre, Thomas, [64], [81], [199]
• Louvain, life at, [61], [264]
• Ludwig the Bavarian, emperor, [276]
• Luther, Martin, called to Wittenberg, [280]
  • his early development, [280]-[283]
  • Theses, [289]-[291]
  • letter from, [294]
  • letter to, [295]-[297]
  • his views disclaimed, [298] sqq.
  • Leipzig Disputation, [307], [337]
  • burns the papal bull and canon law, [337]
  • writings of 1520, [338]
  • confronts the radical party, [339]-[341]
  • at Worms, [345], [346]
  • letter on free will, [384]-[386]
  • treatise, de servo arbitrio, [398]-[401]
• Luther and Erasmus compared, [282], [283]

M

• Macchiavelli, Niccolo, Il Principe, [256]
• Manius, Peter, letter to, [1]
• Marburg Conference, [408]
• Margaret, mother of Erasmus, [4]
• Margaret of Austria, regent of the Netherlands, [405]
• Maximilian of Germany, [119]
• Melanchthon, Philip, called to Wittenberg, [280]
  • letter to, [325]
• More, Thomas, [64]
  • first meeting with Erasmus, [77], [78]
  • introduces Erasmus to the royal children, [79]
  • Utopia, [257]
• Mountjoy, Lord, pupil of Erasmus, [43]
  • invites him to England, [62]
  • second invitation (1509), [179]-[183]
• Münzer, Thomas, [340], [362], [398]
• Musurus, Marcus, [143], [144]

N

• Neuenaar, Count of, [244]
• New Testament, Greek, editing begun in England, [200]-[204]
  • dedicated to Pope Leo X., [271]
  • third edition, [351]

O

• Opulentia sordida, colloquy on life at Venice, [138]-[142]
• Orleans, life at, [92]

P

• Pace, Richard, at Ferrara, [145]
• Padua, life at, [144]
• Paraphrases of the New Testament, [424]-[426]
• Paris, university organisation, [34]
  • life in, [33]-[40], [42]-[47], [248]-[253]
• Parvus, William (Guillaume Petit), [248], [249]
• Paul III., pope, correspondence with, [457]
• Paul IV., pope, Index of, [454], [455]
• Pelicanus, Conrad, letters to, [416], [417]
• Philip of Burgundy, panegyric on, [116]-[121]
• Pirkheimer, Bilibaldus, letters to, [413], [414]
• Pius IV., pope, Index of, [455]
• Poncher, Stephen, Bishop of Paris, [250], [253]
• Popes, humanistic, [273]
• Præparatio ad Mortem, [452], [453]
• Praise of Folly, motive of, [158]
  • analysis of, [159]-[175]
  • apology to Dorpius, [176]-[178]

R

• Raphael, Cardinal of St. George, [226]
• Religious Pilgrimage, the, [215], [216]
• Reuchlin, John, [236]-[239], [310], [320]
• Rhenanus, see Beatus
• Riario, Raffaelle, cardinal, [151]
• Rome, life in, [150]-[156]

S

• Scaliger, Julius Cæsar, criticises Erasmus, [137], [235]
• "Senex ille," [42]-[46]
• Schmalkalden, League of, [445]
• Servatius, companion of Erasmus at Steyn, [23]
  • prior of Steyn, letter from Erasmus, [218]-[224]
• Siena, visit to, [146]
• Sintheim, John, [6]
• Sorbonne, the, attacks the Colloquies, [424], and the Paraphrases, [432]
• "Spirit," the, [388], [389]
  • Luther on, [399]
• Spongia adversus aspergines Hutteni, [372]-[378]
• Standonch, John, [35]
• Steyn, monastery at, [14]-[20]
  • life at, [15]-[23]
• Stromer, Heinrich, letter to Spalatin, [459]
• Stunica, James Lopez, [355], [404], [427]

T

• The True Way of Prayer, [437]-[440]
• Tournehens, visit to, [54]
• Tunstall, Cuthbert, [263], [264]

U

• Utopia of Thomas More, [257], [261]
• Utrecht, life at, [5]

V

• Valla, Laurentius, [204]
• Veere, Anna, Marchioness of, [48]
  • visit of Erasmus to, [54]
  • letter to, [59], [60]
  • marriage of, [61]
• Venice, life at, [137]-[143]
• Volzius, letter to, [111]-[115]

W

• Warham, William, Archbishop of Canterbury, joins in calling Erasmus to England, [183]
  • gives him the "living" of Aldington, [184]-[186]
  • character, [226], [454]
• Wessel, John, [8]
• Winckel, Peter, uncle and guardian of Erasmus, [5], [7], [9]
• Wittenberg University founded, [280]
• Wittenherus, Nicholas, prior of Steyn, [222]
• Wolsey, Thomas, letter to, [298]
• Worms, Diet at, [345], [346]
  • Edict of, [346]

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