Chapter 1: Introduction: Prefiguring the Modern Intellectual?- 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.