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

This volume includes Erasmus’ correspondence for the months April 1532 to April 1533, a period in which he feared a religious civil war in Germany. In his des

This 2005 book examines how the religious search for meaning shaped contemporary assumptions about friendship, gender, reading and writing.

The name Erasmus of Rotterdam conjures up a golden age of scholarly integrity and the disinterested pursuit of knowledge, when learning could command public adm