Also, on the subject of Erasmus, we should remember that there was a time
when "monk" was a title of respect and importance among many and not merely
descriptive, much less a put down, particularly in Erasmus' case, who always
held to his orders. This what cwconrad is sort of pointing to, I think.
Probably "Medieval" could be dropped, not because someone might suppose that
Erasmus thought of himself as "Renaissance-ish" in our eyes but because the
label "medieval" says more about "us" than about "them."
Guy Story Brown, Dallas
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