The Cambridge Connection in Tudor England
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-38224-4 (ISBN)
This book highlights the famous ‘Athenian tribe’: a group of humanist scholars in the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI and Elizabeth I, who resolved many difficult problems concerning the Tudor succession, diplomacy, and the English Church. They included Sir John Cheke as their early leader, and with him, Roger Ascham, Thomas Smith, and John Ponet. William Cecil, Lord Burghley, Queen Elizabeth’s invaluable chief minister, was the most influential of them all. The Cambridge Connection explores the interdependency of scholarship, politics, and religion in the sixteenth century. The ‘Athenian tribe’ was essential to the shaping of mid-Tudor cultural life. They left a lasting imprint on early modern England.
John F. McDiarmid, PhD (1980, in English Literature, Yale University), was Emeritus Professor of British and American Literature at New College of Florida. He was the editor of The Monarchical Republic of Early Modern England (2007). Susan Wabuda, PhD (1992, in History, University of Cambridge), is Professor of History at Fordham University. She has published extensively on the English Reformation, Bible reading, the making of John Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, pulpits and preaching, Anne Askew, and Thomas Cranmer.
Acknowledgements
Susan Wabuda
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction The Cambridge Connection in Tudor Politics, Religion and Learning
Susan Wabuda and John F. McDiarmid
Part 1
The Starting Point for the Athenians: Classical Rhetoric and Its Tudor Applications
1 Perfecting Eloquence, Perfecting England The Pattern of Cambridge Humanist Thought
John F. McDiarmid
2 Disputed Sounds Thomas Smith on the Pronunciation of Ancient Greek – Representing the Evanescent in Sound and Image
Richard Simpson
3 John Cheke’s Greek Scholarship in Translation
Andrew W. Taylor
Part 2
Cambridge Humanists and the English Reformation
4 `We Walk as Pilgrims’ Agnes Cheke and Cambridge, c. 1500–1549
Susan Wabuda
5 New Perspectives on Cambridge’s Role in the Religious Reformation Roger Ascham and the Early Edwardian Religious Debates at the University
Lucy Rachel Nicholas
6 The Cambridge Connection and the ‘Strangeness’ of Italian Reformers, 1547–1556
M. Anne Overell
Part 3
Cambridge Humanists and the Polity
7 ‘Commonweal Men’ and the Government of Mid–Tudor England
Alan Bryson
8 Civil Instruction Ordering the Godly Commonweal in John Cheke’s Marital Correspondence
Cathy Shrank
9 The Cambridge Connection and the Shaping of the Elizabethan State
Norman Jones
10 The Cambridge Connection and the Early Elizabethan Diplomatic Corps
Tracey A. Sowerby
11 A Continuing Connection The Cambridge group and the University of Cambridge, c. 1547–1598
Ceri Law
12 The End of the Cambridge Connection
Glyn Parry
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.12.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | St Andrews Studies in Reformation History |
| Verlagsort | Leiden |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 725 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 90-04-38224-0 / 9004382240 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-90-04-38224-4 / 9789004382244 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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