Spring/Summer 2005 - University of Toronto Press Publishing

MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE STUDIESControversies withEdward LeeEdited by Jane E. Phillips. Translated by ErikaRummel. Annotated by István Bejczy, Erika Rummel,and Jane E. Phillips.COLLECTED WORKS OF ERASMUS, VOLUME 72In 1520, the reading public witnessed the eruption ofa simmering conflict between Erasmus, the foremostadvocate of the new biblical humanism, and EdwardLee, a younger scholar at the University of Louvainand spokesman for the traditionalists in matters ofbiblical interpretation and church discipline. WhenErasmus (perhaps unconsciously) subsumed criticismsLee had sent to him of his 1516 Annotations onthe New Testament into the second edition (1519)without properly crediting their source, Lee resortedto publication of his collection of criticisms.Erasmus responded immediately with theApologia which is neither arrogant nor biting nor angrynor aggressive, and which responds to the two invectivesof Edward Lee, describing his version of the history ofthe dispute with Lee, and less than two months laterproduced Responses to Lee’s criticisms. This new volumein the Collected Works of Erasmus series containsthe first-ever English translations of the Apologyand the Responses. These two pieces display Erasmusthe humanist in the thick of academic turmoil,deploying all the rhetorical weapons at his command.The volume is an entertaining and informativelook into Erasmus as a scholar and as a man.Jane E. Phillips is a professor in the Department ofModern and Classical Languages at the Universityof Kentucky.Erika Rummel is a professor emerita in the Departmentof History at Wilfrid Laurier University and an adjunctprofessor at Emmanuel College, University of Toronto.István Bejczy is an associate professor in the Departmentof History at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen.Controversies withAlberto PioEdited and annotated by Nelson H. Minnich andDaniel J. Sheerin. Translated by Daniel J. Sheerin.Introduction by Nelson H. MinnichCOLLECTED WORKS OF ERASMUS, VOLUME 84PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCEDThis new volume in the Collected Works ofErasmus series presents three of the great thinker’spolemic works against Alberto Pio, Prince of Carpi.A leading diplomat of the period, patron of artistsand humanists, and conservative Catholic, Pio continuallyangered Erasmus by criticizing him for hisdenunciations of church practices and officials, andby accusing him of supporting Luther and holdingdangerous opinions. The texts are lucid, passionate,and even vitriolic at times.The introduction by Nelson H. Minnich providesa biography of Pio, an overview of the controversyand related texts, and a bibliographical conspectusof source-texts. The translation is by DanielJ. Sheerin. The annotation by Minnich and Sheerinis wide-ranging and informative, answering questionsposed by the text and placing the reader firmlyin the sixteenth-century context of the dispute.This is the first English translation of the AlbertoPio controversies. In the Collected Works it followson Volumes 71–83, which contain Erasmus’ controversieswith other critics on theological, political,social, philological, and educational matters.Nelson H. Minnich is a professor in the Departmentof History at the Catholic University of America.Daniel J. Sheerin is an associate professor in theDepartment of Classics at the University of NotreDame.Approx. 430 pp / 6 3 /4 x 9 3 /4 / May 2005Cloth ISBN 0-8020-3836-0 £96.00 $150.00 EApprox. 790 pp / 6 3 /4 x 9 3 /4 / March 2005Cloth ISBN 0-8020-4397-6 £110.00 $175.00 E29