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Alcor, Alfonso Fernandez, Archdeacon of, on the circulation of the ‘Enchiridion’ in Spain,174Amerbach, printer at Basle,302.His sons,id.Ammonius,223,256,270,283,284.Death of,458.Describes More’s family,256Aquinas, the ‘Summa’ of,108-110,440.On Scripture inspiration,33,123.Erasmus and Colet on,107et seq.Augustine, Colet prefers Origen and Jerome to,16,41.Colet differs from,36,82.Luther’s adherence to,404,472.Eck charges Erasmus with not having read his works,435et seq.The power of his dogmatic theology,494.Difference between the Augustinian standpoint and that of the Oxford Reformers,494-497Baptista, Dr., Erasmus takes his sons to Italy,186Battus, tutor to the Marchioness de Vere.Kindness to Erasmus,164-167Bembo, secretary to Leo X.,322Bishops, promotion of,226-230.Ignorance of some,227Boville, at Cambridge, Erasmus writes to,399Cain, conversation on sacrifice of,97et seq.Erasmus tells a story about,99Chalcondyles,14Charles, Prince(Charles V.), invites Erasmus to Flanders,279.Henry VIII. breaks faith with,308.‘Institutio Principis Christiani’ written for,368.Connives at Indulgences,422.Erasmus loses his faith in,430.Election to the Empire,482Charnock, the Prior, head of the College of St. Mary the Virgin at Oxford,94.His reception of Erasmus,96.Dines with Colet, Erasmus, &c.,97.Mention of,102,118,165,171Colet, Sir Henry,14,113Colet, John, ordained deacon,2,n.His father,14.His family,15.His mother,15,n.,251,397.Graduates at Oxford in Arts,15.Enters the Church,id.His preferments,id.Visits France and Italy, and what he studies there,id.At Florence (?),17.Whether influenced by Savonarola,18,37,n.,158.Studies Pico and Ficino’s works,21,22.Returns to Oxford,22.Lectures on St. Paul’s Epistles,1,32.His mode of interpretation not textarian,33.Acknowledges human element in Scriptures,34.Differs from St. Augustine,36,82.MS. on the ‘Romans,’33-42.Rejects theory of uniform inspiration of Scripture,id.Acquaintance with Thomas More,24.First hears of Erasmus,27.Conversation with a priest on St. Paul’s writings,42.Letter to Abbot of Winchcombe,45.On the Mosaic account of the Creation—theory of accommodation—letters to Radulphus on,43-58.Pico’s ‘Heptaplus,’59.Abstracts of the Dionysian writings,60-77.On the object of Christ’s death,67.On priests,68.On the sacraments,70.On sponsors,71.On self-sacrifice,74.On the Pope and ecclesiastical scandals,75.Lectures on I. Corinthians,78-89.Whether convinced that the Pseudo-Dionysian writings were spurious,91.His warm reception of Erasmus,95.His view of Cain and Abel’s sacrifices,98.Erasmus’s admiration of his earnestness,98.His position at Oxford,101.His appreciation of Erasmus,id.Conversation with Erasmus on the Schoolmen,102-112.Advice to theological students,106.Discussion with Erasmus on Christ’s agony in the garden,116-118.His love of truth,121.On the theory of ‘manifold senses’ of Scripture,122.On Scripture inspiration,id.Disappointed at Erasmus leaving Oxford,126.Urges him to expound Moses or Isaiah,128,131.Left alone at Oxford,133.Dean of St. Paul’s,137,138.His work in London, habits, preaching, &c.,139-142.More on his preaching,148.He advises More to marry,160.Preaches and practises self-sacrifice,206-207.Succeeds to his father’s property,206.Resigns living of Stepney,208.Founds St. Paul’s School,208-210.Colet’s gentleness and love of children,211-215.Preface to his Grammar,213.Advice to his masters,214.Rejects Linacre’s Grammar,216.Writes a Grammar,id.On the true method of education,216-219.Letter to Erasmus,218.Wants an under-schoolmaster,220.Sermons liked by the Lollards,222.Colet’s preaching,225.Sermon to Convocation of 1512,230et seq.Completes his school,250.Letter to Erasmus,251.Erasmus in praise of Colet’s preaching and school,253.Persecuted by Fitzjames,254.Defended by Warham,id.Returns to his preaching,255.Preaches against Henry VIII.’s wars,261.Defended against Fitzjames by the King,262.Ditto, ditto, again, Good Friday sermon,264.His troubles about property—quarrel with his uncle, &c.,285.Visits St. Thomas’s shrine with Erasmus,287et seq.Letter to Erasmus—harassed by Fitzjames,305.Sermon on installation of Cardinal Wolsey,343.Procures release of a prisoner,393.Letter to Erasmus on ‘Novum Instrumentum,’ &c.,394; ditto on Reuchlin’s speculations,412.Attacked by sweating sickness,461.Fixes statutes of his school,462.His views on marriage,464.Makes his will and prepares his tomb,466.Interest in passing events,id.Letter from Marquard von Hatstein,468.Colet’s retirement from public life,482.Death of Colet,503.Character of,504.Colet’s MS. on Romans, extracts from,App. A; MS. on I. Corinthians, extracts from,App. B.Colet’s preferments,App. D.Colt, Jane, More’s first wife,160,180,193,256,498.Dies,256.Epitaph,498Convocationof 1512,223et seq.Colet’s sermon to,230et seq.Coventry, description of,414.Mariolatry there,416Croke, Richard, at Paris gets first edition of the ‘Praise of Folly’ printed there,204,n.Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagit, his writings, Colet studies,16.Translated by Ficino,21.Abstracts of his ‘Hierarchies’ made by Colet,60-73.Influence of, on Colet,41,58,n.,82,84,91,345.Grocyn rejects as spurious,91Dorpius, Martin, attacks Erasmus,313.Reply of Erasmus,316.Mention of, by Colet,395Eck, Dr., controversy with Erasmus,434-437.Ditto with Luther,484Education, satire on prevalent modes of,194,211et seq.Colet’s views on,208,214.Erasmus on the true method of,217.Schoolmasters looked down upon,220.In Utopia, universal,353.Four-tenths of English people cannot read,353Eobanus,480‘Epistolæ Obscurorum Virorum,’407-411Erasmusat Paris,28.Comes to Oxford,94.Character and previous history,94-96.Object in coming to Oxford,96.His reception by Charnock and Colet,id.Converses on sacrifices of Cain and Abel, and tells a story about Cain,99.Admires Colet,101,102.Delight with Oxford circle,102.Conversation with Colet on the Schoolmen,106-108.Studies Aquinas,108.Falls in love with Thomas More,113.Letter to More,114.Delighted with England,115.Conversation with Colet on the agony of Christ,117-120.Theory of ‘manifold senses’ of Scripture,121-125.Correspondence with Colet on leaving Oxford,126-133.At Court,126.Promises to join Colet someday,133.Leaves Oxford,133.With More visits the royal nursery,134.Leaves England for Italy,135.Robbed at Dover by the Custom House officers,161.Cannot go to Italy on account of his poverty,162.His troubles from poverty and ill-health,163-165.Friendship with Battus and Marchioness de Vere,164-166.‘Adagia,’163.‘Enchiridion,’165.Remembers his promise to Colet,167-172.Letter to Colet, his works, poverty, study of Greek, admiration for Origen,168.His ‘Enchiridion,’173.Its popularity,174.Views expressed in it on free-will Anti-Augustinian,175.Report of discussion on the ‘agony of Christ,’176.His ‘Adagia,’177.Preface to Valla’s ‘Annotations,’177-179.In England, a second time visits More,180.Again starts for Italy,183.Is to instruct the sons of Dr. Baptista, &c.,184.Letter to Colet and Linacre from Paris,185.Visits Italy,186-188.Description of German inns,186.Quarrel with the tutor of his pupils,187.Disappointed with Italy,187.Returns to England to More’s home on the accession of Henry VIII.,188.The ‘Praise of Folly,’193-204.When first edition published,204,n.Goes to Cambridge,205.His views on schools,210-212.His ‘De Copiâ Verborum,’216,251.‘On the true method of education,’217.Skirmishes with the Scotists,219.Defends Colet’s school,251.Epigram on battle of Spurs,271.At Walsingham,273.Work at Cambridge,276.Leaves Cambridge,279.Invited to the court of Prince Charles,279.Letter to Abbot of St. Bertin against war,280.Brush with Cardinal Canossa,282.Intercourse with Colet,284et seq.Letter to Colet,286.With Colet visits St. Thomas’s shrine,288et seq.Goes to Basle,294.Letter to Servatius,296et seq.Accident at Ghent,300.Reaches Maintz,301.Strasburg,id.Reaches Basle,incog.,302.At Froben’s office,234.Writes to England,305.Returns to England,306.Letters to Rome,307.Supports Reuchlin,id.Satire upon kings,309.Edition of 1,800 of ‘Praise of Folly’ sold,312.On his way to Basle again,312.Replies to attack from Dorpius,316.Reaches Basle,318.The ‘Novum Instrumentum’ and its prefaces—the ‘Paraclesis,’ &c.,321-335.St. Jerome,335.‘Institutio Principis Christiani,’365-377.‘Paraphrases’ and other works,392.Colet reads the ‘Novum Instrumentum’ and encourages him to go on,394-397.Reception of the ‘Novum Instrumentum’ in other quarters,398.By Luther,402.Erasmus mentioned in ‘Epistolæ Obscurorum Virorum,’408.Denounces international scandals and Indulgences,420and425-426and433.Journey to Basle,433.Arrival,434.Attack from the plague,id.Correspondence with Eck,id.His labours at Basle,438.Letter to Volzius,438-440.Second edition of ‘New Testament’ and ‘Ratio Veræ Theologiæ,’442-454.His health gives way—ill at Louvain,455.Does not die—letter to Rhenanus,457.His opinion of Luther and Melanchthon,477-481.Correspondence on the Hussites of Bohemia,484et seq.On ‘The Church’ and Toleration,488-491.Grieves on the death of Colet,503-504.His opinion of Colet’s character,id.Early editions of works of,App. EFerdinand of Spain,260,308,361Ficino, Marsilio,9,11-14,19,20,n.,39.His ‘De Religione Christiana,’11-12Fisher, Bishop, Erasmus visits,399.Erasmus writes to,412,431,503Fisher, Christopher, More’s host at Paris,171,177Fisher, Robert,116Fitzjames, Bishop of London, zeal against heresy,222-223,230,247.Promotions,228.Mention of,179.Hatred of Colet and his school,241,253.Tries to convict Colet of heresy,254.Never ceases to harass him,249,306,467Flodden, Battle of,272Florence, Grocyn and Linacre at,14.See‘Platonic Academy’Fox, Bishop of Winchester,147.Praises the ‘Novum Instrumentum,’398Froben, John, his printing-press and circle of learned men at Basle,302.Reception of Erasmus,303,304,318,n.Mention of, in ‘Epistolæ Obscurorum Virorum,’410Gerson, ends the schism,6.Persecutes Huss, &c.Giles’, Peter, connection with the ‘Utopia,’381-382,389Grocyn, at Florence,14.At Oxford,id.More studies under,25.Opinion of Erasmus of,115.Rejects Pseudo-Dionysian writings as spurious,90,91.Writes preface to Linacre’s translation of Proclus,85.In London,142,149,170.Patronises More’s lectures,143.Goes with Erasmus to Lambeth,183Grotius, Hugo, rejects the Machiavellian theory of politics,369Hatstein’s, Marquard von, letter to Colet,468Henry VII., zeal for reform, and against dissent,8.Presents Colet to the deanery of St. Paul’s,138.Avaricious,144,161,189,190.More offends him by opposing a subsidy,145,147Henry VIII., More and Erasmus visit, when a boy,134.Accession of,190.More’s verses on,id.His continental wars,223.His ambition,259.His first campaign,223,260.Colet preaches against it, but without offending Henry VIII.,261.Ditto, ditto, against second campaign,262-272.Invades France,270.Peace with France,308.Evil results of his wars,338.Connives at the Pope’s Indulgences,422.Change in policy,428.Draws More into his service,429Heresy, on the increase,222,223.Convocation for extirpation of,223et seq.Colet on,238.Discussion on burning of heretics,248.Colet accused of,254Holbein, Hans, woodcut by, in ‘Utopia,’389.Picture of More’s family,500, andAppendix CHoward, Admiral,263.Death of,269Hussitesof Bohemia.Luther discovers that he is one,485.Their opinions and sects, and Erasmus’s views on the same,485-491Hutten, Ulrich,480,497Indulgences, sale of,419.Erasmus denounces,420,426,441.Luther denounces,421.Princes bribed to allow of,422Isabellaof Spain, zeal for reform,8.Persecutes,id.Jerome, Colet prefers to Augustine,16,41.Erasmus also,435,437.Follows his opinion on the cause of the agony of Christ,118.Erasmus opposes it,120.Colet adheres to it,120.Erasmus quotes, against inspiration of the Vulgate translation,317.Erasmus edits works of,317,319.Erasmus in praise of,437Jonas, Justus, Erasmus writes to,504Julius II., satire on, by Erasmus,202,203.His ambition,258.Holy Alliance,263.Julius de cœlo exclusus,426,427Kings, satire of Erasmus on,


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