Colloquies

Colloquies
Title Colloquies PDF eBook
Author Desiderius Erasmus
Publisher University of Toronto Press
Pages 1320
Release 1997-01-01
Genre Dialogues, Latin (Medieval and modern)
ISBN 9780802058195

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Erasmus' Familiar Colloquies grew from a small collection of phrases, sentences, and snatches of dialogue written in Paris about 1497 to help his private pupils improve their command of Latin. Twenty years later the material was published by Johann Froben (Basel 1518). It was an immediate success and was reprinted thirty times in the next four years. For the edition of March 1522 Erasmus began to add fully developed dialogues, and a book designed to improve boys' use of Latin (and their deportment) soon became a work of literature for adults, although it retained traces of its original purposes. The final Froben edition (March, 1533) had about sixty parts, most of them dialogues. It was in the last form that the Colloquies were read and enjoyed for four centuries. For modern readers it is one of the best introductions to European society of the Renaissance and Reformation periods, with lively descriptions of daily life and provocative discussions of political, religious, social, and literary topics, presented with Erasmus's characteristic wit and verve. Each colloquy has its own introduction and full explanatory, historical, and biographical notes. Volumes 39 and 40 of the Collected Works of Erasmus series - Two-volume set.

Ten Colloquies of Erasmus

Ten Colloquies of Erasmus
Title Ten Colloquies of Erasmus PDF eBook
Author Desiderius Erasmus
Publisher MacMillan Publishing Company
Pages 216
Release 1957
Genre Fiction
ISBN

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A Key to the Colloquies of Erasmus

A Key to the Colloquies of Erasmus
Title A Key to the Colloquies of Erasmus PDF eBook
Author Preserved Smith
Publisher
Pages 80
Release 1927
Genre Philosophy
ISBN

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A Handbook on Good Manners for Children

A Handbook on Good Manners for Children
Title A Handbook on Good Manners for Children PDF eBook
Author Erasmus
Publisher Random House
Pages 52
Release 2011-11-30
Genre Education
ISBN 1409052109

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When did you last tell your children to put their hand over their mouth when they yawn? When did you last suggest that when they are introduced to someone they should shake hands firmly and look them in the eye? Do you suggest that they should wait until everyone is served before they eat rather than hoover up the best bit for themselves? Do you demand that your young daughter dress decorously lest she elicit outraged looks? Do you think that the children of today have disgraceful manners? Unlike, of course, when you were young ... Well, that's certainly what Erasmus of Rotterdam thought in 1530 when he published De Civilitate Morum Puerilium: A Handbook on Good Manners for Children. He felt that learning good manners was crucial to a child's upbringing, and that the uncouth and ill-disciplined behaviour around him demanded a new kind of book. After all, as William of Wykeham memorably said in the 1350s, 'Manners maketh man'. A Handbook on Good Manners for Children is considered to be the first treatise in Western Europe on the moral and practical education of children. It was a massive bestseller - indeed the biggest-selling book of the sixteenth century - going into 130 editions over 300 years and being translated into 22 languages within ten years of its publication. In it, Erasmus concerns himself with matters such as how to dress, how to behave at table, how to converse with one's elders and contemporaries, how to address the opposite sex and much else. For example: Table Manners 'It's just as rude to lick greasy fingers as it is to wipe them on your clothing, Use a cloth or napkin instead.' 'Some people, no sooner than they've sat down, immediately stick their hands into the dishes of food. This is the manner of wolves.' 'Making a raucous noise or shrieking intentionally when you sneeze, or showing off by carrying on sneezing on purpose, is very ill-mannered.' 'To fidget around in your seat, and to settle first on one buttock and then the next, gives the impression that you are repeatedly farting, or trying to fart.' The advice is as relevant today as it was 500 years ago.

The Praise of Folly

The Praise of Folly
Title The Praise of Folly PDF eBook
Author Desiderius Erasmus
Publisher
Pages 220
Release 1913
Genre Folly
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Tudor Translations of the Colloquies of Erasmus (1536-1584)

Tudor Translations of the Colloquies of Erasmus (1536-1584)
Title Tudor Translations of the Colloquies of Erasmus (1536-1584) PDF eBook
Author Desiderius Erasmus
Publisher Academic Resources Corp
Pages 386
Release 1972
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN

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Late at night, Robert goes to the circus and finds a fabulous balloon machine, with which he creates unusual balloons.

The Education of Children

The Education of Children
Title The Education of Children PDF eBook
Author Desiderius Erasmus
Publisher Library of Alexandria
Pages 88
Release 1927-01-01
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1465566937

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