{"product_id":"roger-ascham-and-his-sixteenth-century-world-9789004382275","title":"Roger Ascham and His Sixteenth-Century World","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements  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 \u0026amp; 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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210760151383,"sku":"9789004382275","price":152.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/roger-ascham-and-his-sixteenth-century-world-9789004382275","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}