English opposition to Erasmus: Henry Standish and Edward Lee Sample Clauses

English opposition to Erasmus: Henry Standish and Edward Lee. Erasmus loved England, and had a number of very powerful friends and supporters there, including Thomas More and John Colet. Yet not everyone in England was equally enthusiastic about Erasmus’ philological work on the bible. Henry Standish, Franciscan minister provincial for England, vigorously opposed Erasmus’ text-critical work on the New Testament, though his own philological skill was not equal to his zeal. In letters to Hermann Buschius, Luther and Vincentius Theoderici written during 1520 and 1521, Erasmus describes how Standish had preached a sermon at St Paul’s Cross, urging the assembled crowds to stop their ears against the man who had the temerity to write In principio erat Sermo (a translation, as Erasmus argued, which more accurately expresses the active and creative power of God’s word).8 At court, Standish made an even studiosissime emendatum: felici fine absolutum est in | hac preclarissima Complutensi vniuersitate: de mandato & | sumptibus Reuerendissimi in christo patris & illustris|simi domini domini fratris Francisci Ximenez de Cisne|ros tituli sancte Balbine sancte Romane ecclesie | presbyteri Cardinalis hispanie Archiepiscopi to|letani & Hispaniarum primatis ac regnorum | castelle archicancellarij: industria & soler|tia honorabilis viri Arnaldi guiliel|mi de Brocario artis impressorie | magistri. Anno domini Mil|lesimo quingentesimo de-|cimo quarto. Mensis | ianuarij die decimo.” This colophon makes it clear that Ximénez combined the roles of patron and publisher, though this latter role was precluded by his death.