Erasmus "constantly and consistently" opposed the mooted idea of a Christian "universal monarch" with an over-extended empire who could supposedly defeat the Ottoman forces: such universalism did not "hold any promise of generating less conflict than the existing political plurality;" instead, advocat...
M. Coetzee and the Idea of the Public Intellectual (2006) Erasmus’s Moria… sees through the madness of those who see themselves as reasonable and self-possessed while in reality giving themselves over to rivalry. As a representative of both the feminine and the parodic, Moria does not set...