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DESIDERIUS ERASMUS, THE MANUAL OF A CHRISTIAN KNIGHT (1501)
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Desiderius Erasmus was a Christian, humanist
scholar; the first editor of the New Testament;
a classicist; and a leading voice in the
theological debates of the early Reformation in
northern Europe. He contended with the
reformer Martin Luther (1483-1546),
emphasizing the importance of free will in
human actions against Luther’s belief in the
absolute bondage of the will to sin.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Erasmus’ very popular 16th century guide
book on how to live a moral, Christian life
while avoiding formal ritual and observances.
THE EDITION USED
A Book Called in Latin Enchiridion Militis
Christiani and in English The Manual of the
Christian Knight, replenished with the most
wholesome precepts made by the famous clerk
Erasmus of Rotterdam, to which is added a
new and marvellous profitable Preface
(London: Methuen and Co., 1905).
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Document Outline

• Erasmus, Enchiridion Militis Christiani (1905
  • Front Matter
    • Title Page
    • The Book Speaketh
    • The Printer to the Faithful Reader
    • Enchiridion The Epistle, p. 1
    • Table of Contents, pp. 39-40
  • A Compendious Treatise, p. 41
    • Chapter I. We must watch and look about us evermore while we be in this life, p. 42
    • Chapter II, Of the weapons to be used in the war of a christian man, p. 55
    • Chapter III, The first point of wisdom is to know thyself, and of two manner wosdoms the true wisdom and apparent, p. 74
    • Chapter IV, Of the outward and inward man, p. 81
    • Chapter V, The diversity of affections, p. 88
    • Chapter VI, Of the inward and outward man, and of the two parts of man proved by holy scripture, p. 95
    • Chapter VII, Of the three parts of man, the spirit, the soul, and the flesh, p. 104
    • Chapter VIII, Certain general rules of true christendom, p. 111
    • Chapter IX, Against the evil of ignorance, the first rule, p. 115
    • Chapter X, The second rule, p. 117
    • Chapter XI, The third rule, p. 122
    • Chapter XII, The fourth rule, p. 129
    • Chapter XIII, The fifth rule, p. 138
    • Chapter XIV, The sixth rule, p. 184
    • Chapter XV, Here followeth opinions meet for a christian man, p. 206
    • Chapter XVI, The seventh rule, p. 231
    • Chatper XVII, The eighth rule, p. 234
    • Chapter XVIII, The ninth rule, p. 235
    • Chapter XIX, The tenth rule, p. 235
    • Chapter XX, The eleventh rule, p. 236
    • Chapter XXI, The twelfth rule, p. 237
    • Chapter XXII, The thirteenth rule, p. 238
    • Chapter XXIII, The fourteenth rule, p. 239
    • Chapter XXIV, The fifteenth rule, p. 240
    • Chapter XXV, The sixteenth rule, p. 241
    • Chapter XXVI, The seventeenth rule, p. 243
    • Chapter XXVII, The eighteenth rule, p. 246
    • Chapter XXVIII,The nineteenth rule, p. 247
    • Chapter XXIX, The twentieth rule, p. 249
    • Chapter XXX, The one and twentieth rule, p. 251
    • Chapter XXXI, The two and twentieth rule, p. 251
    • Chapter XXXII, Remedies against certain special sins, and first against bodily lust, p. 252
    • Chapter XXXIII, A short recapitulation of remedies against the flame of lust, p. 262
    • Chapter XXXIV, Against the enticing and provoking unto avarice, p. 263
    • Chapter XXXV, The recapitulation of the remedies against the vice of avarice, p. 269
    • Chapter XXXVI, Against ambition or desire of honour and authority, p. 270
    • Chapter XXXVII, Against elation, otherwise called pride or swelling of the mind, p. 273
    • Chapter XXXVIII, Against wrath and desire of wreake and vengeance, p. 276
• The End of Book, p. 287