ABSTRACT
Every reader of the Moria and of his Annotations on the New Testament knows of his amused contempt for the scholarship of Hugo Carrensis - Hugh, the great Cardinal of Saint-Cher. It may come as a surprise to discover that some of the central preoccupations of Erasmus are firmly embedded in the exegesis of that medieval Cardinal, whose works he must have often had open before him. In a very special way Erasmus associated his entire theology with the theme of the madness of Christianity; of the folly of the Gospel; of the madness of Christ. He had forerunners in this, and he is not always fair to them. Erasmus, in what is probably the only - very indirect - admission of indebtedness to the Cardinal whom he so regularly mocked, notes that 'some' strive to apply all the detail of David's assumed madness to Christ.
