P.S. Allens edition of the correspondence of Erasmus, published in twelve volumes between 1906 and 1958, initiated a new epoch in the study of both Renaissance

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This 2005 book examines how the religious search for meaning shaped contemporary assumptions about friendship, gender, reading and writing.

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