Erasmus, Contarini, and the Religious Republic of Letters
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How religious search for meaning shaped contemporary assumptions about friendship, gender, reading and writing.
1. A new kind of religious life; 2. Creating an alternative community: spiritual values and the search for meaning; 3. The spiritual quest: reading and writing about God and salvation; 4. Necessary relationships: desire for God and each other; 5. Defining the ideal: words of praise for fools and bishops, women and martyrs; 6. Epilogue.
