Erasmus: Humanist, Critic, Legend

Tudors Dynasty

RedTop Media / Rebecca Larson

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4.4 • 794 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Today, I’m thrilled to welcome back the brilliant Amy McElroy for a deep dive into the fascinating life of Erasmus of Rotterdam! This conversation was full of unexpected twists—just when I thought I had a handle on his story, another surprise popped up. You won’t want to miss it!

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Host: Rebecca Larson

Guest: Amy McElroy

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0:31.3	podcast hello and welcome back to the show i'm your host rebecca larson and today I'm so excited to welcome back my good friend, Amy McElroy. Welcome.
0:41.6	Hi, Rebecca. Thank you for having me back again. I feel like you're just becoming regular on the show at this point.
0:48.0	I know. I love it. I love it too. Amy and I feel like I've become pretty good friends after doing all of these interviews now, haven't we?
0:57.7	Yeah, we definitely have.
0:59.3	Yeah, it's a good thing.
1:00.7	Yeah, it's nice to have other historical people in your corner that you can chat about history and other things with.
1:06.5	Oh, yeah, definitely.
1:07.7	You can deal with all my life drama.
1:15.1	Well, speaking of drama in life,
1:22.9	how's that for a segue? Today we're going to talk about the topic of a book that Amy is working on currently about Erasmus, right? Yeah, he's definitely a figure for drama.
1:30.5	I love this because I really don't know anything about him, other than I think he had some
1:37.1	type of a relationship with Thomas Moore.
1:39.6	I know that he came to English court and met the royal children, and that is pretty much it,
1:46.4	as far as my knowledge of him goes. So today, I think we're really going to do just the basic.
1:51.2	We'll do like Erasmus 101, like four beginners today. Is that okay? Yeah, perfect. So to get
1:59.8	started, I really want to know what made you decide to do a book on him, of all people.
2:07.2	Okay, so it was one I was researching for the fast books at educating the Tudors.
2:16.1	And although he was never really a royal tutor, I was intrigued by
2:25.1	how much she actually influenced education as a whole and his relationship that he had with
2:32.9	Henry VIII. And I just found him to be quite an
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