Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Prefiguring the Modern Intellectual? -- The Ethical Test -- Intellectuals in Public Life -- Chapter 2: The Public Good -- Chapter 3: An Intellectual Against Crusading -- Chapter 4: Erasmus on the Education and Nature of Women -- Chapter 5: In the Face of the Execution of Thomas More -- Chapter 6: In the Face of Francis I's Foreign policy -- Chapter 7: In the Face of the Destruction of the Amerindians -- Chapter 8: Erasmus's Turkophobic Bias -- Chapter 9: Erasmus and Reuchlin: The Jews and their Language -- Chapter 10: Conclusions: Only Sparks Fly Upward -- Bibliography -- Published Sources -- Others than those specified by abbreviations at the beginning of the book. -- Works Cited in This Book -- Index.