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Handbook of a Christian Knight
Enchiridion militis Christiani, or Handbook of a Christian
Knight (or: Soldier was written by Desiderius Erasmus in
Soldier)
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1503 and was published in England by William Tyndale. • Online Library of Liberty, Full text available online in
During a stay in Tournehem, a castle near Saint- HTML and PDF
Omer, Erasmus encountered an uncivilized, yet friendly
soldier who was an acquaintance of Battus, Erasmus’
close friend. On the request of the soldier’s pious wife,
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who felt slighted by her husband’s behaviour, Battus [1] The Greek word encheiridion has the double
asked Erasmus to write a text which would convince the meaning of ’manual’ and ’dagger’, which gives the
soldier of the necessity of mending his ways, which he title a military connotation.
did. The resulting work was eventually re-drafted by
Erasmus and expanded into the Enchiridion militis Chris-
tiani,[1] The Enchiridion is an appeal on Christians to act
Bibliography
in accordance with the Christian faith rather than merely • J. Huizinga, Erasmus. Haarlem 1924 (Dutch, reprint of
performing the necessary rites. It became one of Eras- 1947)
mus’ most influential works.
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