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Book SynopsisThe life of Roger Ascham (1515/16–1568) coincided with the reigns of four Tudor monarchs, the rise and death of Luther, the Council of Trent and the wholesale division of Christendom. He operated in arenas including Cambridge University, the court, the continent and the capital, and his writings engaged with the most important intellectual concerns of his age, including humanism, educational reform, religion and politics. In this volume historians, literary specialists and classicists have worked together both to re-evaluate more familiar territory in Ascham’s life and work, and to illuminate previously untapped sources. Their essays reveal Ascham as a considerably more significant figure than previous scholarship has suggested. Two appendices provide valuable further biographical and bibliographical material. Contributors: Andrew Burnett, Cyndia Susan Clegg, J.S. Crown, Sam Kennerley, Ceri Law, Micha Lazarus, John F. McDiarmid, Lucy R. Nicholas, Mike Pincombe, Richard Rex, Cathy Shrank, and Tracey A. Sowerby.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations and References Note on the Text List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction Ceri Law and Lucy R. Nicholas PART 1 Cultures of Scholarship 1 Roger Ascham and the Idea of a University in Sixteenth-Century England Ceri Law 2 Ascham & Co: St John’s College, Cambridge, in the 1540s Richard Rex 3 Patristic Scholarship and Ascham’s ‘troubled years’ Sam Kennerley 4 Ascham, Coins, Cambridge and Beyond Andrew Burnett PART 2 Broader Horizons: Connections and Influences 5 ‘The Scholer of the Best Master’: Ascham and John Cheke John F. McDiarmid 6 Roger Ascham’s Diplomatic Training and Mid-Tudor Diplomatic Careers Tracey A. Sowerby 7 The Special Relationship: Ascham and Sturm, England and Strasbourg Lucy R. Nicholas 8 Ascham and Queen Elizabeth’s Religion Cyndia Susan Clegg PART 3 Language, Literature and Learning Reassessed 9 Ascham as Reader and Writer: Greek Sententiae and Neo-Latin Poetry J. S. Crown 10 The Bow and the Book: Ascham’s Toxophilus Cathy Shrank 11 The Scholemaster’s Memories Micha Lazarus 12 Ascham and Sturm on imitatio: Ethical and Ludic Attitudes to a Literary Technique Mike Pincombe Appendices Appendix 1 Roger Ascham: a Biographical Sketch Lucy R. Nicholas Appendix 2 Ascham’s Bookshelf Micha Lazarus Bibliography Index
