| Editor`s Preface | | vii | |
| Selections from the Writings |
| | 1 | (264) |
| | 3 | (85) |
| | 3 | (3) |
| | 6 | (82) |
| | 88 | (29) |
| Two Forewords to the Latin Translation of the New Testament |
| | 117 | (25) |
| Paraclesis: or, An Exhortation (1516) |
| | 118 | (9) |
| Foreword to the Third Edition (1522) |
| | 127 | (15) |
| Julius Excluded from Heaven |
| | 142 | (32) |
| | 174 | (54) |
| | 175 | (6) |
| | 181 | (31) |
| An Inquisition into Faith |
| | 212 | (10) |
| The Abbot and the Learned Lady |
| | 222 | (6) |
| | 228 | (37) |
| To Martin Dorp (May 1515) [A Defense of Folly] |
| | 228 | (23) |
| To Beatus Rhenanus (ca. 15 October 1518) [The Hardships of Travel] |
| | 251 | (8) |
| To Peter Tomiczi, Bishop of Cracow (31 August 1535) [A Tempered Perspective] |
| | 259 | (6) |
| | 265 | (74) |
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| The Transalpine Renaissance |
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| [Medieval and Renaissance Folk Humor] |
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| Erasmus from an Italian Perspective |
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| Draining and Filling: A Few Benchmarks in the History of Humanism |
| | 326 | (13) |
| Erasmus: A Chronology | | 339 | (2) |
| Selected Bibliography | | 341 | |