Companion to Erasmus

Eric MacPhail, Ph.D. (1988, Princeton University) is Professor of French at Indiana University. He is the author of numerous books and articles on European Renaissance literature, and since 2013 he has served as editor of the scholarly journal Erasmus Studies.

“Displaying an Erasmian taste for combining light-heartedness with thorough erudition, both the editor and the contributors to this handbook have not just succeeded in adding new things to an already massive history of research on Erasmus, but also in bringing to life the ideas of an author whose works are not easily accessible to those less acquainted with them. This Companion is a manual that, for many years to come, will bring pleasure and profit to both acclaimed and inexperienced students of Erasmus.” Han van Ruler, Erasmus University Rotterdam. In: Erasmus Studies, Vol. 46, No. 1 (2026), pp. 89–91.

• AbbreviationsIntroduction1 A Life of Learning: Erasmus’ Literary & Educational WritingsBrian Cummings2 Erasmus and the Church FathersMark Vessey3 Erasmus and the PhilosophersAnita Traninger4 Erasmus and Biblical ScholarshipJan Bloemendal5 Erasmus and Luther: Free Will and TraditionGreta Kroeker6 Proverbial Wisdom: The Adagiorum ChiliadesRobert Kilpatrick7 The Correspondence of ErasmusChristine Bénévent8 Print and Humanism: Portrait of Erasmus as a Paper OracleAlexandre Vanautgaerden9 Erasmus in the History of Religious ToleranceEric MacPhail10 Erasmus and the OtherTerence J. Martin11 Erasmus in Translation (16th–17th Centuries)Paul J. SmithCatalogue of the Works of Erasmus of RotterdamJoan TelloBibliographyIndex