THE

LIFE

OF

E R A S M US:

WITH

HISTORICAL REMARKS

ON THE STATE

OF

LITERATURE

BETWEEN THE TENTH AND SIXTEENTH CENTURIES.

Quare quis tandem me reprehendat, aut quis inihi jure succenseat,
si quantum cæteris ad festos dies ludorum celebrandos, quantum ad
alias voluptates, et ad ipsam requiem animi et corporis conceditur
temporis, quantum alii tempestivis conviviis, quantum aleæ, quantum
pilæ, tantum mihi egomet ad hæc studia recolenda sumpsero.

Cicero pro srchia.

Le changement d'etude est toujours un delassement pour moi.

D'Aguesseau.

By. CHARLES BUTLER, Esq.

OF LINCOLN'S-INN.

LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET.

M.DCCC.XXV.

363

C H A P. .

Historical Remarks on the State of Literature during the
Middle Ages

600—1467.

page 1

2

1.-Of the Literature of Greece

2.-The Literature of Rome

7

3.—'The Effects of the Invasion of the Barbarians

upon Literature

10

4.-State of Learning in the Middle Ages ib.

1.-10th Century

11

2.-11th Century

13

3.-12th Century

14

4.-13th Century

16

5.-14th Century

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CHAP. II.

31

From the Birth of Erasmus till his first Journey to
Paris

1467-1496. Æt. 1-29.

Birth of Erasmus

ib.

Sent to School at Daventer

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