Erasmus edits the Greek New Testament

Name: Erasmus edits the Greek New Testament
Start: 1516

The return to biblical sources opens the way to the Reformation and to modern textual criticism.

Meanwhile, elsewhere

Within twenty-five years of 1516 — the context national timelines leave out.

1 year later Luther’s 95 Theses Germany
18 years earlier Vasco da Gama reaches India Portugal
24 years earlier 1492 Spain
same year Ecclesiastical principality Montenegro
1 year later Skaryna’s Bible Belarus
7 years later Gustav Vasa Sweden
10 years earlier Building of St Peter’s Vatican City
10 years later Disaster of Mohács Hungary

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Which long period

Periods overlap: they are landmarks, not boxes.

Renaissance 1400 – 1600 Printing, humanism, and the opening of ocean routes.

Countries involved

Netherlands

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What was written of it

Before 1914, the earth belonged to all. Everyone went where they wished and stayed as long as they pleased. There were no permits and no authorisations.

Stefan Zweig 1942

The World of Yesterday. Memoirs of a European

Translated by the site, not by the author.