Talk:Erasmus/Archive 2

Who is the greatest scholar of the northern Renaissance?
My Wikipedians,

I would call into question the validity of the following clauses in the first line of the opening paragraph. "[...]who is widely considered to have been the greatest scholar of the northern Renaissance". James D. Tracy, a historian, is cited as authority for this claim, but the cited article itself is unsubstantiated, and as in the Wikipedia article, does not say by what measure. I can find no credible consensus - only the EB article and sites copying Wikipedia verbatim. It may not be wrong to say he was one of the greatest scholars of the northern Renaissance, but in positing it is a material fact that he was the greatest, the clauses are rendering an opinion to be absolute.

I would therefore dismiss this claim. The mistake of the editor has been induced by a material misrepresentation of the historian. Contributer232312 (talk) 21:26, 6 December 2019 (UTC)