Oh good lord, Luther on Jews, Milton on Catholics... do they have Cervantes on Muslims, too?

I just browsed through Stefan Zweig's Erasmus biography again (which contains a great many Lutherian blasts quoted - the man really was second to none when it came to verbal assaults and pulverizing whoever he thought of as the enemy!) - , which Zweig wrote in 1935, and no prizes for guessing why Zweig found Erasmus with his "both...and" perspectives and refusal to be a fanatic and hardcore partisan so attractive.

Plato's Republic, good point. (BTW, I seem to dimly recall they taught me at school More and the other Renaissance humanists got their Plato mainly via Plotinus?)

Series giving information (or not): I note they haven't bothered to spell out yet Lady Rochford is Jane Boleyn, Anne's sister-in-law, yet, which is rather important in the long run and is going to be crucial in the next two eps. As you may have guessed Mantel goes with the traditional view on her rather than with newer biographers like Julia Fox. Now I suspect Julia Fox may be overdoing it, but I was rather surprised to find that there really is no contemporary source for Lady Rochford testifying against her husband & Anne, which was so universally depicted that I never doubted it. (Mind you, Howard Brenton's drama Anne Boleyn is still unique among the fictional depictions with presenting not just a sympathetic Jane but one who is actually friends with Anne and gets terrorized by Cromwell into testifying against her once Cromwell decides Anne has to go for his own survival.)