The Honorable Burden of Public Office
English Humanists and Tudor Politics in the Sixteenth Century
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2010
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4331-0957-7 (ISBN)
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4331-0957-7 (ISBN)
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Demonstrates how the integration of ideas and actions transformed politics and society in the sixteenth century. This title traces the rise of civic humanism in England through the lives and careers of six prominent Elizabethans - John Cheke, Walter Haddon, Thomas Wilson, Thomas Smith, Nicholas Bacon, and William Cecil.
The Honorable Burden of Public Office traces the rise of civic humanism in England through the lives and careers of six prominent Elizabethans – John Cheke, Walter Haddon, Thomas Wilson, Thomas Smith, Nicholas Bacon, and William Cecil. It not only recreates the network of intricate relationships and activities that reshaped Elizabethan political culture, it explores the connections between English humanism and the Continental Renaissance, and it shows the development of England’s emerging classical culture within a broader European context. A solid, detailed, and original scholarly work based on extensive archival research, The Honorable Burden of Public Office demonstrates how the integration of ideas and actions transformed politics and society in the sixteenth century.
The Honorable Burden of Public Office traces the rise of civic humanism in England through the lives and careers of six prominent Elizabethans – John Cheke, Walter Haddon, Thomas Wilson, Thomas Smith, Nicholas Bacon, and William Cecil. It not only recreates the network of intricate relationships and activities that reshaped Elizabethan political culture, it explores the connections between English humanism and the Continental Renaissance, and it shows the development of England’s emerging classical culture within a broader European context. A solid, detailed, and original scholarly work based on extensive archival research, The Honorable Burden of Public Office demonstrates how the integration of ideas and actions transformed politics and society in the sixteenth century.
The Author: J. M. Anderson received his Ph.D. in history from Syracuse University. He has recently finished a manuscript on liberal education and teaching and is currently working on a history of love from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 9.6.2010 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 160 x 230 mm |
| Gewicht | 600 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Schulbuch / Wörterbuch | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie | |
| Schlagworte | Ascham, Roger • Bacon, Nicholas • Cheke, John • Civic Humanism • culture, • Education • England • Haddon, Walter • Hardcover, Softcover / Geschichte • Humanism • Intellectual life • Politics • Queen Elizabeth I • Renaissance • Sir Thomas Smith • sixteenth century • Society • William Cecil • Wilson, Thomas |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4331-0957-3 / 1433109573 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4331-0957-7 / 9781433109577 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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