The Praise of Folly Sources and ClassicNote Author

Adams, Robert M. "Draining and Filling: A Few Benchmarks in the History of Humanism" in The Praise of Folly and Other Writings (A Norton Critical Edition), New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1989.

Bartholin, Erasmus and Lydia Gregorian Christian. "The Figure of Socrates in Erasmus' Works," in The Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 3 No. 2 (Oct. 1972), pp. 1-10.

Bizzell, Patricia. "'The Praise of Folly,' the Women Rhetor, and Post-Modern Skepticism" in Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 1, Feminist Readings in the History of Rhetoric (winter 1992), pp. 6-17.

Christian, Lynda Gregorian. "The Metamorphoses of Erasmus' 'Folly.'" Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 32, No. 2 (Apr-Jun., 1971), pp. 289-294.

Greenfield, Thelma N. "A Midsummer Night's Dream and the Praise of Folly," in Comparative Literature, Vol. 20, No. 3 (Summer, 1968), pp. 236-244.

Grendler, Paul F. "In Praise of Erasmus," in The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 7, No. 2 (Spring, 1983), pp. 88-101.

Huizinga, J. "Erasmus's Mind" in The Praise of Folly and Other Writings (A Norton Critical Edition), New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1989.

Levi, A.H.T. "Introduction" from Erasmus, Praise of Folly. London: Penguin Books, 1993.

Miller, Clarence H. "Some Medieval Elements and Structural Elements in Erasmus' The Praise of Folly" in Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 27, No. 4 (Winter, 1974), pp. 499-511.

Rebhorn, Wayne A. "The Metamorphoses of Moria: Structure and Meaning in The Praise of Folly." PMLA, Vol. 89, No. 3 (May, 1974), pp. 463-476.

Roper-Trevor, H.R. "Desiderius Erasmus" in The Praise of Folly and Other Writings (A Norton Critical Edition), New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1989.

Vredeveld, Harry. "'That Familiar Proverb': Folly as the Elixir of Youth in Erasmus's Moraie Ecomium." Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 42, No. 1 (Spring, 1989), pp.78-91.

Watson, Donald Gwynn. "Erasmus' Praise of Folly and the Spirit of Carnival." Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 32, No. 3 (Autumn, 1979), pp. 333-353.