Chapter II: Preface: iii

INTRODUCTION xiii

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE xxiii

CHAPTER I.

SCHOOL AND MONASTERY. 1467-1490 1

CHAPTER II.

PARIS AND HOLLAND. 1492-1498 26

CHAPTER III.

FIRST VISIT TO ENGLAND. 1498-1500 62

CHAPTER IV.

PARIS--THE "ADAGIA"--THE "ENCHIRIDION MILITIS
CHRISTIANI"--PANEGYRIC ON PHILIP OF BURGUNDY.
1500-1506 87

CHAPTER V.

RESIDENCE IN ITALY--THE "PRAISE OF FOLLY." 1506-1509 122

CHAPTER VI.

ENGLAND (1509-1514)--THE NEW TESTAMENT--THE "DE
COPIA VERBORUM ET RERUM." 179

CHAPTER VII.

BASEL AND LOUVAIN--THE "INSTITUTIO PRINCIPIS
CHRISTIANI." 1515-1518 218

CHAPTER VIII.

BEGINNINGS OF THE REFORMATION--CORRESPONDENCE OF
1518-1519 268

CHAPTER IX.

DEFINITE BREACH WITH THE REFORMING PARTIES--HUTTEN'S
"EXPOSTULATIO" AND ERASMUS' "SPONGIA." 1520-1523 336

CHAPTER X.

DOCTRINAL OPPOSITION TO THE REFORMATION--FREEDOM
OF THE WILL--THE EUCHARIST--THE "SPIRIT." 1523-1527 380