Life and Letters of Erasmus: Lectures Delivered at Oxford 1893-4

433 pp. 8vo. Original red-orange cloth, gilt titles and emblem on front board. An assessment of the life and works of the philosopher and Catholic theologian known as the 'Prince of Christian Humanists.' Christian Humanists viewed Erasmus as their leader in the early 16th century. Erasmus' works had greater meaning to those learned few who had a larger knowledge of Latin and Greek.