TY - JOUR
AU - Ferguson, Wallace K.
AB - Reviews of Books vey of the discussions as to authorship, credibility, and purpose of composi­ tion. This is followed by a comprehensive note on the several editions, in­ cluding also manuscripts, where these are in existence. Variant readings in the different editions are given in the footnotes. Here also are copious ex­ planatory references to events and to the literature of the special subject referred to. Each person mentioned in the text is described in a note. We have thus a running commentary which takes the place of a bibliography and of an elaborate index. For his historical references Dr. Ferguson relies mainly upon the standard histories, Creighton, Pastor, Gregorovius, or Ranke. On controversial points he follows generally the opinions of the late Professor Percy S. Allen, editor of the Erasmian letters, whose lamented death (June 16, 1933) occurred too late for mention in this volume. As to the central Erasmian problem, the relation of the great scholar to the Lutheran reforms, our author is inclined to a rather generous view of his sincerity and to ascribe many of the apparent contradictions of statement to honest change of opinions rather than to timidity or dread of persecution. The most 
TI - Desiderius Erasmus Roterodatnus: ausgewählte Werke. Im Gemeinschaft mit Annemarie Holborn, herausgegeben von Hajo Holborn, Johann Cuspinians Briefwech ...
JO - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1086/ahr/39.2.308
DA - 1934-01-01
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SP - 308
EP - 310
VL - 39
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -