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Desiderius Erasmus
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Erasmus was born in Rotterdam on 27 October (?) as the illegitimate son of a priest.
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He attended a school at Deventer which was regarded as progressive and had capable teachers who introduced Erasmus to “something of a higher standard of literature” (CWE 4: ). Orphaned in , he came into the care of guardians who sent him to a school run by the Brethren of the Common Life in the spirit of the Devotio Moderna.
Since Erasmus’ inheritance was small, his guardians persuaded him to enter the monastery of the Augustinian Canons Regular at Steyn. He was ordained priest in
In later years Erasmus alleged that he had been pressured into taking the vows.
His misgivings found expression in one of his first works, De Contemptu Mundi (On disdaining the World, written in the s, published ). Ostensibly a praise of monastic life, it began by recommending seclusion and withdrawal from the world but ended in a lament about the decline of mo
