Querela

At the urging of Le Sauvage, in 1517 he also published a book that restated the anti-war sentiments expressed in the adage Dulce bellum, called Querela pacis (The Complaint of Peace).

Desiderius Erasmus Nauert, Charles 2008

He responded not by submission but by quickly producing two works of self-defense, a brief Querela denouncing the

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This was his Querela pacis (The Complaint of Peace), written about a year after the adage Dulce bellum at the request of his most influential and helpful patron at the time, Jean Le Sauvage, chancellor of Burgundy and Castile.

Desiderius Erasmus Nauert, Charles 2008

All of Erasmus 'anti-war works, the Panegyric, the adage Dulce bellum, the Querela, and even the Institutio on the education of a prince, declare that war is evil because it is contrary to reason, incompatible with Christ's commands, and destructive of the life, prosperity, and happiness of the people.

Desiderius Erasmus Nauert, Charles 2008

Yet Querela pacis was not a mere piece of propaganda favoring one court faction over another.

Desiderius Erasmus Nauert, Charles 2008

His major treatises on pacifism, Dulce bellum inexpertis and Querela pacis, present the case for pacifism and against war through citations and analyses of biblical passages, not through rationalistic proofs, though they do regard war as irrational as well as un-Christian.

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_Querela Cantabrigiensis: or, a Remonstrance by way of Apologie for the banished Members of the late flourishing University of Cambridge.

Notes and Queries, Number 41, August 10, 1850 Various

Barwick, one of the authors of the _Querela_ (in the Eng.transl. p. 42.), the story is thus told:

Notes and Queries, Number 46, September 14, 1850 Various

Another of his works, "Querela de divisione Imperii" a lament over the dissensions of the realm, was written by Florus when the kingdom was undergoing severe political disturbance occasioned by the strife between Louis the Pious and Lothair.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

Erasmus of Rotterdam in his Querela pacis (The Complaint of

Albert Schweitzer - Nobel Lecture 1952