What is it about?
Christine Christ-von Wedel’s book is a fine introduction to Erasmus’s life and work, and friendly to the reader. The minimal and concise footnotes used by the author, as well as Albert de Pury’s amusing cartoons, contribute to achieving this. But...
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Why is it important?
The book contains a substantial treatment of the issue of Erasmus and the Jews but, alas, it is wrong. The review refutes the traditional overly-lenient narrative of Erasmus and the Jews.
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Von-Wedel's work is a further indication that the time has come to rehabilitate the overly lenient and defective narrative, stretching from Sh. Markish to T. R. Martin, to infuse it with more stringent analysis and strident conclusions. This does not mean dethroning the prince of humanists. It means an acceptance of interpretive elements – until now rejected or ignored by a hegemonic group of researchers – and creating a more complete and ethically justified narrative.
Dr. Nathan Ron
The University of Haifa
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This page is a summary of: Christ-von Wedel, Christine. Erasmus of Rotterdam: A Portrait., Renaissance and Reformation, April 2021, University of Toronto Libraries - UOTL,
DOI: 10.33137/rr.v43i4.36411.
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