Huizinga's text was translated from the Dutch by F. Hopman and first published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1924. The section from the Letters of Erasmus was translated by Barbara Flower.

Reprinted by arrangement with Phaidon Press, Ltd., London

Originally published under the title: "Erasmus of Rotterdam"

First HARPER TORCHBOOK edition published 1957

Library of Congress catalogue card number 57-10119

Contents

[Preface by G. N. Clark]

[Chapter I. CHILDHOOD AND EARLY YOUTH, 1466-88]

[Chapter II. IN THE MONASTERY, 1488-95]

[Chapter III. THE UNIVERSITY OF PARIS, 1495-9]