Эразм

Johan Huyzing (1872-1945) is a Netherlands historian and a world -famous culturalist, whose work preceded the emergence of the school of Annals. His most famous works, constantly reprinted throughout the world, include the autumn of the Middle Ages and treatise Homo Ludens (playing a person)
Erasmus (1467-1536) - a great humanist, translator and author of comments on the texts of the Old and New Testaments. His books praise stupidity and conversations easily made him one of the most famous Latin -speaking writers. According to the classic philologist, Yu. A. Shikhalin, Erasmus turned out to be the "cross of the tradition that has preserved for Europe the unity of its ancient sources with Christianity, the tradition, which we rightfully call the humanistic."
In the biography of Erasmus (1924), Hyusing explores the complex and contradictory personality of the Great Rotterdamets. The desider erazm is shown not only as an witty writer and philosopher, the ruler of the thoughts of the era of humanism, but also as a person with his weaknesses and disadvantages, endowed with too small amounts of prejudices and too subtle taste, with some lack (oh, not in all areas! Stultzia itself (stupidity), which he glorified as an integral life element. "
Erasmus anticipated the new time not only with his beliefs, but also with his personality and character. He became a preacher of the world, moral education and universal tolerance, which still lacks human society.
The publication is illustrated by reproductions of engravings of great European masters of the XIV-XVIII centuries (Hans Holbine ml., Albrecht Dürer, Peter Breigel Art., Theodore de Bree, etc)