Erasmus Solus Eclipsat

Pecking Out Crow's Eyes with the Prince of the Humanists

The Renaissance followed the calamitous fourteenth century, a period characterized by cultural exhaustion resulting from a long “chain of catastrophes.”¹ Slowly emerging from the devastating effects of the Hundred Years War, the Muslim invasions, the Great Schism, and the Black Death that “killed an estimated one third of the population living between In…