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Informationen zum Autor Desiderius Erasmus Klappentext Erasmus of Rotterdam (c. 1466-1536) is one of the greatest figures of the Renaissance humanist movement, which abandoned medieval pieties in favour of a rich new vision of the individual's potential. Praise of Folly, written to amuse his friend Sir Thomas More, is Erasmus's best-known work. Its dazzling mixture of fantasy and satire is narrated by a personification of Folly, dressed as a jester, who celebrates youth, pleasure, drunkenness and sexual desire, and goes on to lambast human pretensions, foibles and frailties, to mock theologians and monks and to praise the 'folly' of simple Christian piety. Erasmus's wit, wordplay and wisdom made the book an instant success, but it also attracted what may have been sales-boosting criticism. The Letter to Maarten van Dorp, which is a defence of his ideas and methods, is also included. Zusammenfassung Erasmus ranges from light-hearted jibes to vehement denunciation of the theologians and churchmen, monastic life and the condition of the Church, and then seriously expounds the virtues of the Christian way of life. This work is one of the best satirical classics of the Renaissance. Inhaltsverzeichnis Praise of Folly Preface to the 1993 Edition Introduction 1. The importance of the Praise of Folly 2. Erasmus, scholastics, humanists and reformers 3. The Praise of Folly , Dorp and the spirituality of Erasmus Select Bibliography Praise of Folly Prefatory Letter Moriae Encomium , that is, the Praise of Folly Letter to Maarten Van Dorp, 1515 Index
