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Its leaders were intellectuals, men of influence and learning who felt that external practices were too strongly emphasized in contemporary religious devotions to the neglect of their inner meaning.
In an auto de fe on December 21, 1535, Vergara publicly abjured his "errors" and was sentenced to a year of seclusion in a monastery in order to cleanse himself of heresy.
He was a Catholic reformer; he stood for Erasmism, intellectualism, critical scholarship (including the study of the Bible and the writings of the Church fathers); he emphasized the importance of inner convictions over outer observance, but he was none the less a Catholic.
www.ku.edu /carrie/texts/carrie_books/longhurst/2-4.html   (1734 words)

  
 Book Two, Chapter Four: Luther's Ghost in Spain
Erasmism was an imported product, representative of Christian humanism.
There were some Illuminists, such as Isabel de la Cruz and Alcaraz, who either had no knowledge of Erasmism or no taste for it.
It was clear that by 1540 Erasmism was no longer an articulate force in Spanish intellectual life.
libro.uca.edu /longhurst/luther2-4.htm   (1742 words)

  
 Escritor/Excretor: Cervantes's "Humanism" on Philip II's Tomb, by E. C. Graf
What is and/or was “bad” in Cervantes himself is what he abhors about the society that surrounds him, a society that has grown acritical and overzealous in its ideals just as they have been thrown into crisis by a series of historic failures.
Like all of his texts, the sonnet concerns the dying struggle to maintain the enlightening essence of Christianity in the emerging modern world, and this is why he calls it the “honra principal de mis escritos,” as if to lead by the example of his own shame.
It thus implies breaking with this type of secrecy (for it is not of course the only one), that associated with sacred mystery” (2); and again, “Religion is responsibility or it is nothing at all.
www.h-net.msu.edu /~cervantes/csa/artics99/graf.htm   (7688 words)

  
 Bibl_Ayala.html   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
A valuable and often illuminating examination of the novels (including the Novelas poemáticas but excluding all the other shorter fiction) reflecting the personal enthusiasms and prejudices of a lively literary historian exploring them in a chronological but somewhat disjointed manner.
His interest in content rather than in form (see B128a) leads to over-estimation of the early novels and under-estimation of the late ones, and his hobby horses (PA's supposed intellectualism, pessimism, Erasmism, humbug in 1942 Prologue to the Austral edition of Troteras) sometimes lead him astray into self-contradictions.
Bibliography has to be obtained from footnotes via Index.
www.gettysburg.edu:8080 /~mvinuela/Bibl_Ayala.html   (1194 words)

  
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He taught at the University of Alcala; he was named inquisitor of Navarre in 1528 and canon of the cathedral of Seville in 1529.
He died in 1531, just as the Inquisition was warming up to the prosecution of Erasmism in Spain.
To the charge of Erasmism he pleaded the orthodoxy of Erasmus.
www.ku.edu /carrie/texts/carrie_books/longhurst/4-1.html   (18976 words)

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