New history?
Sir: The thesis discussed by Mr Fenlon (September 29) of a " missing third diMension, non-Lutheran and untridentine " has been known to students of the Spanish and Portuguese sixteenth century since the aPPearance of Marcel Bataillon's seminal work: Erasme et L'Espagne (Paris, 1937), and the same author's Etudes sur le Portugal au Temps de 1 Humanisme (Coimbra, 1952). A second French scholar who has made this thesis his own is Augustin flenaudet: Etudes Erasmiennes (Paris, Erasme et L'Italie (Geneva, Erasme, sa pens& religieuse et • ';on action d'apres sa correspondance kParis, 1926). It is therefore difficult to understand Why l'Evangelisme " was to be so Influential everywhere except in France"? It seems correct to pay homage to Other French scholars in whose debt we students of the sixteenth century Peninsula continue to be.
Denis Brass
University of Bristol, 87 Woodland Road, Bristol.
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