ABSTRACT
This article aims to analyze how the complex relationships between local and extra-local dynamics appear in Erasmian humanism. Proposing an alternative to both readings of Erasmus as cosmopolitan, and as a localist with ambiguous attitudes towards his homeland, this paper endeavors to show how the Erasmian humanism was the locus of a conception of society that involved these local and extra-local elements in a complex but fundamentally rhetorical arrangement, based on the idea of respublica christiana: a theological-political structure with an evanescent character, of which the humanist’s latter works are increasingly aware.
Keywords:
Erasmian Humanism; Local Dynamics; Extra-Local Dynamics; Early Modernity; Respublica christiana.