Encounters with a Radical Erasmus: Erasmus' Work as a Source of Radical Thought in Early Modern Europe

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90 Reviews / ERSY 30 ( 2010 ) 57 – 93 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2010 DOI: 10.1163/027628510X533945 Peter G. Bietenholz , Encounters with a Radical Erasmus: Erasmus’ Work as a Source of Radical Thought in Early Modern Europe (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009 ). 326 pp. ISBN 978 - 0 - 8020 - 9905 - 1 . Peter G. Bietenholz’s Encounters with a Radical Erasmus is a wide-ranging work of scholarship that fits well into a growing body of literature on Erasmus’ place in dissident corners of the early modern world. Bietenholz, professor emeritus in the History