Editing Erasmus (section)

==Legacy and evaluations==
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[[File:HolbeinErasmusHands.jpg|thumb|upright=.8|Holbein's studies of Erasmus's hands, in silverpoint and chalks, ca. 1523 ([[Louvre]])]]

{{Blockquote|Since the origin of Christianity there have been perhaps only two other men—St Augustine and Voltaire—whose influence can be paralleled with Erasmus.|W.S. Lily, ''Renaissance Types''<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kloss |first1=Waldemar |title=Erasmus's Place in the History of Philosophy |journal=The Monist |date=1907 |volume=17 |issue=1 |pages=84–101 |doi=10.5840/monist190717138 |jstor=27900019  |issn=0026-9662}}</ref>}}

Erasmus was given the sobriquet "Prince of the Humanists", and has been called "the crowning glory of the [[Christian humanists]]".<ref>Latourette, Kenneth Scott. A History of Christianity. [[New York City|New York]]: Harper & Brothers, 1953, p. 661.</ref> He has also been called "the most illustrious rhetorician and educationalist of the Renaissance".<ref name=laytam>{{cite book |last1=Laytam |first1=Miles J.J. |title=The Medium was the Message: Classical Rhetoric and the Materiality of Language from Empedocles to Shakespeare |date=2007 |publisher=English Dept, University of York |page=81 |url=https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/11008/1/440731.pdf |access-date=26 July 2023}}</ref>

{{blockquote|By the 1570s, "Everyone had assimilated Erasmus to one extent or another."|source=Christophe Ocker<ref name=ocker2022>{{cite book |last1=Ocker |first1=Christopher |title=The Hybrid Reformation: A Social, Cultural, and Intellectual History of Contending Forces |date=2022 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-108-47797-0 |pages=157–184 |chapter=Erasmus and Biblical Scholasticism|doi=10.1017/9781108775434.011 }}</ref>}}

However, at times he has been viciously criticized, his works suppressed, his expertise corralled, his writings misinterpreted, his thought demonized, and his legacy marginalized. He was never judged and declared a heretic by the Catholic Church, [[Legacy and evaluations of Erasmus#Catholic regional prohibitions|during his lifetime]] or [[Legacy and evaluations of Erasmus#Post-Tridentine suspicion|after]]: a [[Legacy and evaluations of Erasmus#In Spain|semi-secret trial]] in Vallodolid Spain, in 1527 found him not to be a heretic, and he was sponsored and protected by [[Legacy and evaluations of Erasmus#Supporters|Popes and Bishops]].