The Manual of a Christian Knight

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Erasmus’s very popular 16th century guide book on how to live a moral, Christian life while avoiding formal ritual and observances.

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A Book Called in Latin Enchiridion Militis Christiani and in English The Manual of the Christian Knight, replenished with the most wholesome precepts made by the famous clerk Erasmus of Rotterdam, to which is added a new and marvellous profitable Preface (London: Methuen and Co., 1905).

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