Erasmus’ Familiar Colloquies grew from a small collection of phrases, sentences, and snatches of dialogue written in Paris around 1497 to help his private pupils improve their command of Latin.
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Erasmus’ Familiar Colloquies grew from a small collection of phrases, sentences, and snatches of dialogue written in Paris around 1497 to help his private pupils improve their command of Latin.
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Frontmatter -- -- Contents -- -- Illustrations -- -- Foreword -- -- Introduction -- -- Familiar Colloquies -- -- Patterns of Informal Conversation -- -- Rash Vows -- -- In Pursuit of Benefices -- -- Military Affairs -- -- The Master's Bidding -- -- A Lesson in Manners -- -- Sport -- -- The Whole Duty of Youth -- -- Hunting -- -- Off to School -- -- Additional Formulae -- -- The Profane Feast -- -- A Short Rule for Copiousness -- -- The Godly Feast -- -- The Apotheosis of That Incomparable Worthy, Johann Reuchlin -- -- Courtship -- -- The Girl with No Interest in Marriage -- -- The Repentant Girl -- -- Marriage -- -- The Soldier and the Carthusian -- -- Pseudocheus and Philetymus: The Liar and the Man of Honour -- -- The Shipwreck -- -- Inns -- -- The Young Man and the Harlot -- -- The Poetic Feast -- -- An Examination concerning the Faith -- -- The Old Men's Chat, or The Carriage -- -- The Well-to-do Beggars -- -- The Abbot and the Learned Lady -- -- The Epithalamium of Pieter Gillis -- -- Exorcism, or The Spectre -- -- Alchemy -- -- The Cheating Horse-Dealer -- -- Beggar Talk -- -- The Fabulous Feast -- -- The New Mother -- -- A Pilgrimage for Religion's Sake -- -- A Fish Diet -- -- The Funeral -- -- Echo -- -- A Feast of Many Courses -- -- Things and Names -- -- Charon -- -- A Meeting of the Philological Society -- -- A Marriage in Name Only, or The Unequal Match -- -- The Imposture -- -- Cyclops, or The Gospel-Bearer -- -- Non-Sequiturs -- -- The Knight without a Horse, or Faked Nobility -- -- Knucklebones, or The Game of Tali -- -- The Council of Women -- -- Early to Rise -- -- The Sober Feast -- -- The Art of Learning -- -- The Sermon, or Merdardus -- -- The Lover of Glory -- -- Penny-Pinching -- -- The Seraphic Funeral -- -- Sympathy -- -- A Problem -- -- The Epicurean -- -- The Usefulness of the Colloquies -- -- Erasmus and Erasmius -- -- The Return to Basel -- -- Editions of the Colloquies -- -- Alphabetical List of the Colloquies -- -- Works Frequently Cited -- -- Short-Title Forms for Erasmus' Works -- -- Index of Biblical and Apocryphal References -- -- Index of Classical References -- -- Index of Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance References -- -- General Index -- -- Backmatter
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher’s Web site, viewed Jan. 06, 2016)
Erasmus’ Familiar Colloquies grew from a small collection of phrases, sentences, and snatches of dialogue written in Paris around 1497 to help his private pupils improve their command of Latin
