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Erasmus on Women
Edited by Erika Rummel
Erasmus on Women
offers selections from Erasmus' manuals on marriage
and widowhood, his rhetorical treatises, and the
Colloquies.
The texts
deal with courtship, marriage, childrearing, and widowhood. Selec-
tions treating particular topics, such as prostitution, scholarship, and
activism, are placed within the context in which they are discussed by
Erasmus.
Erasmus' dialogues present a lively cast of virgins and mothers,
housewives and harlots, shrews and activists. The fifteen texts and
excerpts offered here represent a mixture of traditional and progressive
thought. Along traditional lines, he commends women for their role as
caregivers and for their service to God and society. In contrast, he holds
progressive views (by the standards of his time) on the education of
women and breaks with tradition by challenging the idea that celibacy
is superior to the married state.
Erasmus' views were radical for his time and frequently involved
him in controversy. Lavishly praised by some, his writings were bitterly
denounced by others. Yet the wide dissemination of his writings makes
him an important witness to the social thought of the sixteenth century.
ERIKA RUMMEL is an associate professor in the Department of History at
Wilfrid Laurier University. She is editor of
The Erasmus Reader,
author
of
The Humanist-Scholastic Debate in the Renaissance and Reformation,
and
a member of the editorial board of the Collected Works of Erasmus.
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Erasmus on Women
edited by Erika Rummel
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Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data:
Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536
Erasmus on women
Includes index.
ISBN o-8oao-o8i6-x (bound) ISBN 0-8020-7808-7 (pbk.)
i. Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536 - Views on women.
I. Rummel, Erika, 1942-. II. Title
B
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85.E62E51996 305.4 095-933373-8
This volume is based on the Collected Works of Erasmus (CWE).
University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial assistance to its
publishing program of the Canada Council and the Ontario Arts Council.
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