Religious Polemics and Two Sixteenth Century English Editions of Erasmus's <i>Enchiridion Militis Christiani, 1545-1561</i>

In an article published in the winter of 1972 in Erasmus in English I attempted to show how the first English translation of Erasmus's Enchiridion Militis Christiani became a convenient tool for English propagandists and was used by them to advance the cause of Protestantism in England between 1533 and 1576. The following is a resume of that argument. The Latin text of the Enchiridion was first translated into English in the early 1520s by William Tyndale.^ It was probably this translation that was published by Wynkyn deWorde.