Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Illustrations xi
5. 1. Introduction 1
6. PART ONE: ENLIGHTENMENT, ROMANTICISM, AND REVOLUTION
7. 2. Introduction to Part One 11
8. 3. Erasmus and Enlightenment 14
9. 4. Romanticism and Revolution 69
10. PART TWO: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND AFTER
11. 5. Introduction to Part Two 121
12. 6. From Restoration to the Revolutions of 1848: Erasmus as Critic, Publicist, and Rebel 123
13. 7. Nineteenth-Century France: Erasmus as Writer and Moralist 134
14. 8. Liberalism: Erasmus as Sceptic, Rationalist, and Modern Man 152
15. 9. Nineteenth-Century Catholicism: Erasmus' Relation to Catholic Orthodoxy, the Catholic Tradition, and Scholasticism 186
16. 10. Nineteenth-Century Protestantism: Erasmus and the Reformation in Modern History 238
17. 11. Into the Twentieth Century 297
18. 12. Conclusion 373
19. List of Abbreviations 377
20. Notes 379
21. Bibliography 455
22. Index 485
23. Backmatter 513