Fatal Discord

by Michael Massing

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  Notes

  FREQUENTLY CITED WORKS

  Collected Works of Erasmus. Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1974–.

  Contemporaries of Erasmus: A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation. Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1985–1987.

  Luther’s Correspondence and Other Contemporary Letters, trans. and ed. Preserved Smith and Charles M. Jacobs. Philadelphia: The Lutheran Publication Society, 1913–1918.

  Luthers Werke: D. Martin Luthers Werke Kritische Gesamtausgabe. Weimar: 1883–1983.

  Luther’s Works. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House; Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1955–1986.

  Opera Omnia Desiderii Erasmi. Leiden, Amsterdam: Brill, 1969–.

  Many of the Bible citations in the text are from The New Oxford Annotated Bible, augmented third edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

  Publication information for most of the works cited below can be found in the Bibliography.

  INTRODUCTION

  received a letter: Collected Works of Erasmus, vol. 4, December 11, 1516, 165–169.

  and Hebrew: Parts of the Old Testament Vulgate were translated from the Greek Septuagint.

  CHAPTER 1: THE NEW EUROPE

  a renowned Latin school: James D. Tracy, Erasmus, The Growth of a Mind, 26.

  most widely read devotional work: Robert S. Miola, Early Modern Catholicism: An Anthology of Primary Sources (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 285.