Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch author, scholar and humanist mb-artistname Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton 'Conscription'

'Conscription'

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Gateway to the Church of St Bartholomew-the-Great

Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch author, scholar and humanist mb-artistname Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton 'Conscription'Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch author, scholar and humanist, (1893). Erasmus (1497 1543) was probably the greatest scholar of the northern Renaissance. A believer in the superiority of religious practices in earlier times, he was an advocate of reform of the Church. An illustration from A Short History of the English People, by John Richard Green, illustrated edition, Volume II, Macmillan and Co, London, New York, 1893.