De l’inspiration au rejet: Renaissance et Réforme
From Inspiration to Rejection: Renaissance and Reformation

Summary/Abstract: This paper intends to make a fresh start in the study of the relationship between Renaissance and Reformation, by throwing light on the confrontation of both Erasmus and Luther’s advances of thought and writings. Actually, studying those two protagonists leads one to find out that the deep differences between Renaissance and Reformation started very early and to underline how much the Lutherian project reduced the Erasmian dream of a return of the Golden Age, to nothing. At the same time, this article reveals that the split between Erasmus and Luther did not take place, as too often asserted, even in the most recent historiography, in 1524, at the time of the conflict between free and servile will, but in fact as soon as 1516.

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