moria

Updated: June 21, 2025

The laugh is more delicate, but no less hearty than Rabelais's. How could one take the Moria too seriously, when even More's Utopia, which is a true companion-piece to it and makes such a grave impression on us, is treated by its author and Erasmus as a mere jest?

Johan Huizinga - Erasmus and the Age of Reformation