Erasmus
Dutch Renaissance theologian
Erasmus refers to Desiderius Erasmus (1466–1536), the Dutch humanist scholar and theologian who became the most influential intellectual of the Northern Renaissance.
His name survives in the Erasmus Programme, the European Union's student exchange initiative: She spent a semester in Barcelona on Erasmus.
The programme name honors his travels across Europe in pursuit of learning.
Study of historical texts
- LatinAncient Roman language
- GreekOf Athenian origin
- adagesTraditional wise sayings
- free-willAutonomous decision-making capacity
tolerance · pacifism · satire · correspondence · civility · eloquence · rhetoric · Cicero
Explanatory additions to documents
- translationsConverted linguistic texts
- satireMockery exposing vice
- epistlesLiterary or formal letters
- proverbsTraditional wisdom capsules
Protestant Reformation initiator
- CatholicPapal church adherent
- ProtestantPost-schism Western Christian
- theologyStudy of the divine
- reformImprove by correcting faults
doctrine · heresy · schism · moderation · indulgences · Wittenberg · Counter-Reformation · reconciliation
Higher education institution
- academiaHigher education community
- pedagogyArt of instruction
- curriculumEducational program's content plan
- researchSystematic fact-finding effort
knowledge · learning · teaching · tutor · emendation · commentary · erudition · polyglot
Supporter's financial backing
- MediciFlorentine banking dynasty
- rebirthSpiritual or physical regeneration
- FlorenceTuscan capital city
- VeniceLagoon city, northeastern Italy
Rome · exploration · vernacular · manuscript · incunabula · dissemination · cosmopolitanism
Of the Netherlands
- priestOne who performs sacraments
- theologianExpert in religious doctrine
- illegitimateNot authorized or recognized
- AugustinianOf a fourth-century theologian
Basel · Cambridge · poverty · celibacy · independence · peripatetic · cosmopolitan · orphan
philology
Study of historical texts
free-will · tolerance · pacifism · satire · correspondence · civility · eloquence · rhetoric · Cicero · Seneca
annotations
Explanatory additions to documents
- translationsConverted linguistic texts
- satireMockery exposing vice
- epistlesLiterary or formal letters
Luther
Protestant Reformation initiator
- CatholicPapal church adherent
- ProtestantPost-schism Western Christian
- theologyStudy of the divine
reform · doctrine · heresy · schism · moderation · indulgences · Wittenberg · Counter-Reformation · reconciliation · sacraments
university
Higher education institution
- academiaHigher education community
- pedagogyArt of instruction
- curriculumEducational program's content plan
research · knowledge · learning · teaching · tutor · emendation · commentary · erudition · polyglot
patronage
Supporter's financial backing
- MediciFlorentine banking dynasty
- rebirthSpiritual or physical regeneration
- FlorenceTuscan capital city
Venice · Rome · exploration · vernacular · manuscript · incunabula · dissemination · cosmopolitanism
Dutch
Of the Netherlands
- priestOne who performs sacraments
- theologianExpert in religious doctrine
- illegitimateNot authorized or recognized
Augustinian · Basel · Cambridge · poverty · celibacy · independence · peripatetic · cosmopolitan · orphan
- Dutch FiguresVermeer, Van Gogh, Rembrandt, Anne Frank, William of Orange
- Renaissance WritersWilliam Shakespeare, Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Marlowe, Jonson
- Dutch PhilosophersSpinoza
- Dutch ReligionCalvinism, Mennonites, Synod of Dort, Bible Belt, freedom of conscience
- Dutch Scholars
- Dutch TheologiansMenno Simons
ErasmusMartin Luther
Protestant Reformation founder
John Calvin · schismatic · schismatics · iconoclast · iconoclasts
ErasmusTorquemada
Notorious Spanish religious enforcer
Martin Luther · zealot · zealots · fanatic · fanatics
Erasmusobscurantist
One opposing spread of knowledge
scholastic · Bernard of Clairvaux · anti-intellectual · philistine · barbarian