Erasmus: The Right To Heresy
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: hallam ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Tanning and foxing
At the dawn of the Reformation, one towering intellect stood between the fanaticism of Martin Luther and the iron dogma of Rome — and his name was Erasmus of Rotterdam. Stefan Zweig's masterful biography chronicles the life of the great Renaissance humanist, presenting him not merely as a scholar of antiquity but as a passionate defender of reason, tolerance, and the individual conscience. Set against the explosive backdrop of sixteenth-century Europe, the narrative details the titanic struggle between Erasmus and the reformer John Calvin's brutal suppression of the Spanish theologian Michael Servetus, arguing with compelling force that the right to free thought is civilization's most sacred inheritance. Zweig, one of the most celebrated European writers of the early twentieth century, brings his signature psychological acuity and lyrical prose to bear on a conflict that resonates across the centuries. Originally written in the dark shadow of rising Nazism in the 1930s, the work is unmistakably a parable for its own time — and for ours — illustrating how the courageous defence of intellectual freedom can stand as the highest act of moral courage. Translated with elegance by Eden and Cedar Paul, this Hallam Edition from Cassell and Company presents a text that is at once a work of rigorous historical biography and a blazing humanist manifesto. Whether Erasmus ultimately won his battle against the forces of intolerance is a question Zweig leaves to the reader to decide.
Author: Stefan Zweig
Format: Hardback
Published: 1951, Cassell and Company Limited
Genre: Biography
Edition: hallam ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Tanning and foxing
At the dawn of the Reformation, one towering intellect stood between the fanaticism of Martin Luther and the iron dogma of Rome — and his name was Erasmus of Rotterdam. Stefan Zweig's masterful biography chronicles the life of the great Renaissance humanist, presenting him not merely as a scholar of antiquity but as a passionate defender of reason, tolerance, and the individual conscience. Set against the explosive backdrop of sixteenth-century Europe, the narrative details the titanic struggle between Erasmus and the reformer John Calvin's brutal suppression of the Spanish theologian Michael Servetus, arguing with compelling force that the right to free thought is civilization's most sacred inheritance. Zweig, one of the most celebrated European writers of the early twentieth century, brings his signature psychological acuity and lyrical prose to bear on a conflict that resonates across the centuries. Originally written in the dark shadow of rising Nazism in the 1930s, the work is unmistakably a parable for its own time — and for ours — illustrating how the courageous defence of intellectual freedom can stand as the highest act of moral courage. Translated with elegance by Eden and Cedar Paul, this Hallam Edition from Cassell and Company presents a text that is at once a work of rigorous historical biography and a blazing humanist manifesto. Whether Erasmus ultimately won his battle against the forces of intolerance is a question Zweig leaves to the reader to decide.