She was also a patron of Renaissance humanism, and a friend of the great scholars Erasmus of Rotterdam and Saint Thomas More.

According to his friend, the theologian Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, More once seriously contemplated abandoning his legal career to become a monk.

His portraits were renowned in their time for their likeness ; and it is through Holbein's eyes that many famous figures of his day, such as Erasmus and More, are now " seen ".

When Holbein decided to seek employment in England in 1526, Erasmus recommended him to his friend the statesman and scholar Thomas More.

However, Henry himself appears to have been much more influenced by the opinions on monasticism of the humanists Desiderius Erasmus and Thomas More, especially as found in Erasmus's work In Praise of Folly ( 1511 ) and More's Utopia ( 1516 ).

Erasmus and More promoted ecclesiastical reform while remaining faithful Catholics, and had ridiculed such monastic practices as repetitive formal religion, superstitious pilgrimages for the veneration of relics and the accumulation of monastic wealth.

* The Brusselpoort, last remaining of the city's twelve gates, 13th century ; the Schepenhuis, oldest stone-built city hall in Flanders, historical seat of the ' Grote Raad ' ( Great Council or Supreme Court ), 13th century ; the gothic-renaissance Hof van Busleyden where Jeroen alias Hiëronymus van Busleyden received Erasmus, Thomas More, and the later Pope Adrian VI.

Among his pupils was one — Erasmus — whose name alone would suffice to preserve the memory of his instructor in Greek, and others of note in letters and politics, such as Sir Thomas More, Prince Arthur and Queen Mary I of England.

Guillaume Budé corresponded with the most learned men of his time, amongst them Erasmus, who called him the " marvel of France ", and Thomas More.

Colet was an outspoken critic of the powerful and worldly Church of his day, a friend of Erasmus and Sir Thomas More.

" The invention of that ingenious dilemma for extorting contributions from poor and rich alike is ascribed as a tradition to Morton by Francis Bacon ; but the story is told in greater detail of Foxe by Erasmus, who says he had it from Sir Thomas More.

Edward IV built the Great Hall in the 1470s, a young Henry VIII back when he was known as Prince Henry also grew up here ; it was here that he met and impressed the scholar Erasmus in 1499 introduced by Thomas More.

In Praise of Folly ( Greek title: Morias Enkomion ( Μωρίας Εγκώμιον ), Latin: Stultitiae Laus, sometimes translated as In Praise of More, Dutch title: Lof der Zotheid ) is an essay written in Latin in 1509 by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam and first printed in 1511.

Erasmus revised and extended the work, which he originally wrote in the space of a week while sojourning with Sir Thomas More at More's estate in Bucklersbury.

It starts off with a satirical learned encomium after the manner of the Greek satirist Lucian, whose work Erasmus and Sir Thomas More had recently translated into Latin, a piece of virtuoso foolery ; it then takes a darker tone in a series of orations, as Folly praises self-deception and madness and moves to a satirical examination of pious but superstitious abuses of Catholic doctrine and corrupt practices in parts of the Roman Catholic Church — to which Erasmus was ever faithful — and the folly of pedants ( including Erasmus himself ).

Erasmus was a good friend of More, with whom he shared a taste for dry humor and other intellectual pursuits.

More is shown embarrassing a self-important judge, playing a practical joke on Erasmus, and encouraging an unkempt servant to cut his hair ( Foxe ascribes the last episode to Thomas Cromwell.

These reached their peak in the Renaissance and Wolfe particularly draws inspiration from the Renaissance humanists that supported the Catholic Church, such as Erasmus, Thomas More, Johann Reuchlin and John Colet.

Erasmus, who knew More and his family well, described Roper as a young man " who is wealthy, of excellent and modest character and not unacquainted with literature ".

A commendatory letter from Erasmus gained him the good offices of Sir Thomas More.

He was present with his elder siblings, Margaret, Henry and Mary when Erasmus and Thomas More visited their royal nursery in the summer of 1499, when Edmund was months old.

On August 19 of that year, Thomas More wrote to Erasmus, informing him of Ammonio's death.

In 1763, Greek Orthodox bishop Erasmus of the Diocese of Arcadia, visited London, where John Wesley had considerable conversation with him, and ordained several Methodist lay preachers as priests, including John Jones.

Notably, Dürer had contacts with various reformers, such as Zwingli, Andreas Karlstadt, Melanchthon, Erasmus and Cornelius Grapheus from whom Dürer received Luther's ' Babylonian Captivity ' in 1520.

The great scholar Erasmus would later say that Catherine " loved good literature which she had studied with success since childhood ".

The name Erasmus had been used by a number of his family and derives from his ancestor Erasmus Earle, Common Sergent of England under Oliver Cromwell.

This portion was printed in 1514, but publication was delayed until 1522 by waiting for the Old Testament portion, and the sanction of Pope Leo X. Erasmus had been working for years on two projects: a collation of Greek texts and a fresh Latin New Testament.

Erasmus had been unable to find those verses in any Greek manuscript, but one was supplied to him during production of the third edition.

In this edition Erasmus also supplied the Greek text of the last six verses of Revelation ( which he had translated from Latin back into Greek in his first edition ) from Cardinal Ximenez's Biblia Complutensis.

Noting Luther's criticism of the Catholic Church, Erasmus described him as " a mighty trumpet of gospel truth " while agreeing, " It is clear that many of the reforms for which Luther calls are urgently needed .” He had great respect for Luther, and Luther spoke with admiration of Erasmus's superior learning.

In their early correspondence, Luther expressed boundless admiration for all Erasmus had done in the cause of a sound and reasonable Christianity and urged him to join the Lutheran party.

Notable among these was Ulrich von Hutten, a brilliant but erratic genius, who had thrown himself into the Lutheran cause and had declared that Erasmus, if he had a spark of honesty, would do the same.

In a letter to a friend, Erasmus once had written: " That you are patriotic will be praised by many and easily forgiven by everyone ; but in my opinion it is wiser to treat men and things as though we held this world the common fatherland of all.

") Erasmus spoke favourably of Holbein as an artist and person, but later criticized Holbein whom he had accused of sponging off of various patrons to whom Erasmus had recommended, for purposes more of monetary gain than artistic endeavor.

Bart Ehrman suggests in his book Misquoting Jesus that the King James Version would not have included the passage if Desiderius Erasmus had not given in to pressure to include it in the Textus Receptus even though he doubted its authenticity.

At the same time, Renaissance humanism, with its universal values and emphasis on scholarship ( as exemplified by Erasmus, the " prince of humanism "), had taken root in the country.

A third view is that Zwingli was not a complete follower of Erasmus, but had diverged from him as early as 1516 and that he independently developed his theology.

In September, Tycho secured him a commission as a collaborator on the new project he had proposed to the emperor: the Rudolphine Tables that should replace the Prutenic Tables of Erasmus Reinhold.

Erasmus saluted him as one " whose soul was more pure than any snow, whose genius was such that England never had and never again will have its like ".

They arrived in New Orleans on the 16th, and he was taken to the home of Charles Erasmus Fenner, an Associate Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court.

This multi-volume work was taken chiefly from the papers of Lord Macartney and from the papers of Sir Erasmus Gower, who was Commander of the expedition.

Erasmus instanced Arion as one of the traditional poet's topics that sound like historia rather than fabulae, though he misremembered that Augustine had taken the Arion story to be historia

Valla's defense ( or adaptation ) of Epicureanism was later taken up in The Epicurean, by Erasmus, the " prince of humanists :"

This multi-volume work was taken chiefly from the papers of Lord Maccauley and from the papers of Sir Erasmus Gower, who was Commander of the expedition.

Peter, Paul, Erasmus and Nicholas and enlarged the College to 12 prebendaries, bestowing two of them to canons taken on from the Dominican convent.

There are currently more than 4, 000 higher institutions participating in Erasmus across the 33 countries involved in the Erasmus programme and over 2. 2 million students have already taken part.

His father George Halyburton, one of the ejected ministers, having died in 1682, he was taken by his mother in 1685 to Rotterdam to escape persecution, where he for some time attended the school founded by Erasmus.

The Bene Gesserit gholas of Paul, Lady Jessica, Chani, and Yueh are then taken to see Omnius and Erasmus.

The best known of these is the Erasmus programme, under which more than 2, 000, 000 students have taken part in inter-university exchange and mobility over the last 20 years.

This multi-volume work was taken chiefly from the papers of Lord Macartney and from the papers of Sir Erasmus Gower, who was Commander of the expedition.