Joanne Paul: evaluation

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…What’s he annoyed about? He writes a lot of letters and demands a lot of letters in return. He’s a bit of a hypochondriac. He’s always chasing promotion, but then doesn’t always follow up. He’s very high maintenance, I think, is what Thomas More feels about him. They do fall out for a number of years, not to do with anything regarding religion or the Reformation, but actually to do with the fact that Thomas More becomes Lord Chancellor. That he essentially gives up his career as a scholar, his reputation as a scholar, to devote himself almost entirely to the service of Henry VIII. No letters are exchanged, that we have anyway, between More and Erasmus for those years that he’s Lord Chancellor. It has nothing to do really with dogmatism. Both are defenders of the Catholic Church. Neither is interested in aligning with Luther, particularly. It has more to do with the choices that More makes in his public career. How did More influence In Praise of Folly, Erasmus’s greatest work?…

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