Desiderius Erasmus: Protestant Reformation

Desiderius Erasmus is well-known for being a Christian humanist as well as writing and editing many great works of literature. His educational writings contributed to the replacement of the older scholastic curriculum by the new humanist emphasis on the classics. One of his most famous book, The Praise of Folly, was an attack on the traditions of the Catholic Church because it exposed the abuses of the Church and is still being reprinted today. He prepared important new Latin and Greek editions of the New Testament, which raised questions that would be influential in the Catholic Counter-Reformation and the Protestant Reformation. In both these works, Erasmus was to introduce a more rational conception of Christian doctrine, and to free men's