Gay erasmus

Circa Club for instance has no doubt, using that precise term and including Erasmus in it's collection of historical gay icons. We paid it a brief visit whilst driving between the two cities. They were all written in , when Erasmus was 21 years old and new to the monastery.

When he learned what had happened, he wrote again. Having had the great privilege of visiting Rotterdam a few years ago, I am fascinated by Erasmus as I am by the Templars for different reasons obviously. Struggling with your identity when you’re on Erasmus is something completely normal.

The abbey was closed by Henry VIII in and it, like all the other ecclesiastical establishments closed by the king, became property of the Crown. The abbey was founded by the Benedictine Order in www. We parked in a grassy field, watched by a small herd of cows, most of whom were seated on the ground, maybe anticipating a rain shower.

The Templars used the place to house old and infirm members of their order. It has new roofing and some windows that were added long after it ceased to be part of the nunnery. The only serious evidence in support of the ’Erasmus was gay’ hypothesis is a series of nine letters from Erasmus to Servatius Rogerius, a fellow monk.

Quite a few of these reminders of the past resulted from the mass closure of monasteries and nunneries by King Henry VIII during the 16 th century. His letter was received, and in response the nuns sent him a gift, which was stolen before it reached him. According to one source, Erasmus was attracted to men.

The farmhouse, the building originally constructed for the Countess of Pembroke, still has doorways and windows in both the Norman and mediaeval gothic styles. It was later transferred into the care of English Heritage founded in the s. Likewise with the large barn, once the refectory, it has two tall doors, which are later additions to the structure, as well as bricked in windows and archways that were used when the nunnery existed.

Some of these features, which must have once led into buildings now non-existent, have been bricked in. But being part of the LGBTQ+ community can be tricky. Romantic intimacy with younger men in biographical terms is thus set in the context of Erasmus’s interest in the homoerotic culture of the ancient world and of contemporary monasticism.

Although little survives of the former Denny Abbey, its ruins are worth a short visit. When we stopped to look at the place on a grey Friday morning in August , I had no inkling that the great Erasmus had taken an interest in it, nor had I any idea that the scholar has been suspected by some of being gay.

Some LGBT activists have hailed Erasmus as a gay icon from history. Francis and St. Clare and asked their prayers, not only for himself but for the conversion of the thief. This includes detailed awareness of homosexual acts and innuendos about them. We arrived there early in the morning before it was open to visitors, but without entering the compound, we were able to see most of what is on offer apart from the attached Farmland Museum, which we might visit in the future.

Going on Erasmus can be all about rediscovering yourself. While serving as a canon in Stein Holland , Erasmus:. In , Pembroke College Cambridge bought the plot, and it remained a farm until , when it was leased to The Ministry of Public Works. Clearly, his abrupt dismissal did not deter Grey from writing to him about the nunnery at Denny Abbey.

Deciding whether or not to explore the remains of Denny Abbey is far less difficult than judging Erasmus. Here are some testimonials from people in the community who went abroad. Erasmus was in Paris between and , after which he lived and worked in England Oxford, then Cambridge for several periods over the next few years.

During her term as abbess, two of the nuns in her establishment were sisters of Sir Thomas Grey Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset: , a student of the Dutch philosopher and theologian Desiderius Erasmus c When Erasmus was in Basel in , Grey persuaded him to write to the community at Denny.

The last abbess at Denny was Dame Elizabeth Throckmorton , who headed the nunnery from until its dissolution. In his second letter, Erasmus wrote of:. I have spent time in both Ely and Cambridge and played gigs at festivals in both cities but I had never even heard of this place.

Two lines of masonry almost flush with the ground mark the site of the nave of the now demolished church. And, while you gaze at it, you can marvel at the thought that you are looking at the remains of the only abbey in England to have been home to not one religious order but three different ones www.

An anonymous writer denies this rather vehemently www.