Erasmus and the Age of Reformation: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Erasmus and the Age of Reformation, credited to Johan Huizinga, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Erasmus and the Age of Reformation by Johan Huizinga. (Translated by Frederik Jan Hopman.) Read in English by Owlivia; Trenton; Minnie; Rita Boutros; Michele Eaton; Mario Pineda; Jim Locke; Craig Campbell; Kazbek; Wayne Cooke This shorter book on Erasmus might be considered a companion to Huizinga's most famous work, The Waning of the Middle Ages. While in his magnum opus he presented a study of the forms of life and thought in France and the Netherlands in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, in this one the subject is the central intellectual figure of the next generation after the period which Huizinga called the waning, or rather the autumn, of the Middle Ages. It was first published in 1924, and so belongs to the same period of the author. Erasmus was, as it appears from many of pages, a man for whom Huizinga had a very special sympathy. - Summary by Leni

Recording facts

• Recording title: Erasmus and the Age of Reformation
• Author credits: Johan Huizinga
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 21
• Listed recording duration: 7:55:14

Catalogue topics

• renaissance
• Reformation

Track guide

1. 01 - Chapter I. CHILDHOOD AND EARLY YOUTH, 1466-88 — 19:00
2. 02 - Chapter II. IN THE MONASTERY, 1488-95 — 23:00
3. 03 - Chapter III. THE UNIVERSITY OF PARIS, 1495-9 — 21:15
4. 04 - Chapter IV. FIRST STAY IN ENGLAND, 1499-1500 — 25:04
5. 05 - Chapter V. ERASMUS AS A HUMANIST — 19:31
6. 06 - Chapter VI. THEOLOGICAL ASPIRATIONS, 1501 — 17:08
7. 07 - Chapter VII. YEARS OF TROUBLE—LOUVAIN, PARIS, ENGLAND, 1502-6 — 17:58
8. 08 - Chapter VIII. IN ITALY, 1506-9 — 18:55
9. 09 - Chapter IX. THE PRAISE OF FOLLY — 27:24
10. 10 - Chapter X. THIRD STAY IN ENGLAND, 1509-14 — 21:22
11. 11 - Chapter XI. A LIGHT OF THEOLOGY, 1514-16 — 29:20
12. 12 - Chapter XII. ERASMUS'S MIND — 18:49
13. 13 - Chapter XIII. ERASMUS'S MIND (continued) — 17:30
14. 14 - Chapter XIV. ERASMUS'S CHARACTER — 31:29
15. 15 - Chapter XV. AT LOUVAIN, 1517-18 — 23:22
16. 16 - Chapter XVI. FIRST YEARS OF THE REFORMATION — 30:55
17. 17 - Chapter XVII. ERASMUS AT BASLE, 1521-9 — 26:49
18. 18 - Chapter XVIII. CONTROVERSY WITH LUTHER AND GROWING CONSERVATISM, 1524-6 — 19:24
19. 19 - Chapter XIX. AT WAR WITH HUMANISTS AND REFORMERS, 1528-9 — 25:44
20. 20 - Chapter XX. LAST YEARS — 23:44
21. 21 - Chapter XXI. CONCLUSION — 17:31

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