The Age of Erasmus / Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London

A series of lectures explores the life and intellectual world of the humanist Erasmus, placing his writings and career within the schools, monasteries, and universities that shaped northern Renaissance scholarship. It surveys educational practices, grammatical and philological study, textual criticism, and the transmission of Greek learning, and considers private manners, pilgrimages, and the relationship between humanist learning and religious reform. Close readings of manuscripts and institutional history illustrate how individual scholars interacted with broader cultural change.