History and Biography in the Work of Erasmus of Rotterdam

16th century Adagia adagium admiration aliud allegorically Allen approach to history Augustine Augustine's Basel biography Burckhardt character choragus Christ Christian fathers Christian humanism Church Cicero Ciceronian classical Clement Colet Commentary on Psalm contemporaries Contra Celsum criticism crucial Cusanus Desiderius Erasmus deus deus ex machina divine E.g. LB Ecclesiae emphasized enim epistle dedicatory Erasmus never etiam exempla exemplum expression fabula fact Francis Froben's Goethe Golden Age Greek habet Herodotus Hieronymi vita historical thought historiography individual interpretation Jacob Burckhardt Jerome judgment Kaegi kairos letter literary Livy Luther medieval Meinecke Melanchthon mind neque nihil nobis oculos omnes omnia omnibus Origen pagan patristic patristic editions Plutarch Pope preface Psalm 33 quae quam quod quoted reference Reformation Renaissance rerum rhetorical Romans Rome Saint Sebastian Franck sense Sileni spiritual Suetonius sunt tamen Thucydides tradition transl true truth view of history Vitrier Vives writing