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Description of  Erasmus on Literature: His Ratio or System' of 1518/1519 (Erasmus Studies)

None of the works included among Erasmus Literary and Educational Writings in the Collected Works of Erasmus captures his most adventurous thinking about how texts signify in and thereby make or remake worlds of thought, feeling, and action. The one that comes closest to doing so, the Ratio verae theologiae (A System of True Theology), was first published separately in 1518 and 1519, then appeared in the preliminaries to the New Testament in Erasmus (revised) 1519 edition. Read more