Index of Subjects
The scope of the index is restricted to the modern biographical and critical chapters; the index does not include terms from the four critical editions.
abstinence
19
Aeschylus
161
Libation Bearers
161
affability and mercy
18, 34, 66
Agricola, Rodolphus
103, 121
De Inventione Dialectica
79, 347
Alexander Severus
18, 19, 63–70
almsgiving
72
Americus Vesputius
9
Amici Principis
81
anamnesis
214
Andreas Alciatus
9
Anne of Cleves, Queen
62–63, 346, 356, 359, 361
Appian
9
appropriateness of counsel
18, 26, 30, 85–86, 90–92, 160, 165, 171, 217–224
apriori reasoning
348–349
Aristippus
30–34, 212–213
On the Luxury of the Ancients
349n8
Aristotle
9, 216
on consultation
81–82
Economics
349
Nicomachean Ethics
19, 55, 85, 353
Organon
62
Politics
16, 81–82
Rhetoric
83–85
Sophistical Refutations
347–349
assentation
74, 78. See also flattery
Assize
7
Audley, Thomas
166
Augustinis, Augustine de
22
authority
347–348, 349
Bankette of Sapience
about
35, 38–39
compendiousness in
131
posthumous editions
125
publication and print history
25, 127, 130
Barnes, Robert
167
Bartholomaeus, Anglicus
De Proprietibus Rerum
216
Barzizza, Gasparino
102
Berthelet, Thomas
12n27, 57, 125, 126–127, 172–173
Besselsleigh
7
bias
87
Bibliotheca Eliotae. See Dictionary
Boccaccio
De mulieribus Claris
350n10
Booths
Consolation of Philosophy
223n23
Boke named the Gouernour
Alexander Severus in
64
Book I
17, 82–83, 85
Book II
18
Book III
19, 86
counsel in
81–88, 91–92, 155–156
critical discussions of
15n37
dedicated to Henry VIII
15
and Defence of Women
352–355
education of counselors in
17–18, 79–80, 82–83, 352–355
Elyot’s early politics and
8
on flattery
77, 78
friendship in
49–50
“inferiour governours” in
16
ingratitude in
56n199
Isocrates recommended in
128
Lucian’s dialogues recommended in
158
modeled after Quintillian’s Institutio
17, 18
on monarchy
15–16
Plato’s magnanimity in
226
political purpose of
26
posthumous editions
125
publication and print history
25, 125, 127
purpose of rhetoric in
87–88
Socratian maieutics in
213–215
views on education in
8, 9
virtues, manners, and bearing of counselors
18, 19
Boleyn, Anne
22, 28, 357
Bonner, Edward
29
Bruni, Leonardo
102
Calepine, Ambrose
Dictionarium
58–59
Cammerarius
121
Casteliunculo
121
Castel of Helth, The
about
35, 40–43
Linacre and
10
posthumous editions
125
prologue’s importance
54–56
publication and print history
25, 70, 125, 127, 130
Castiglione, Baldassare
Courtier
350n9
Catherine of Aragon
27–28, 63, 356–359
Catholicism
45–49, 75, 168
caution
86
Chancery courts
13–14
Chapuys, Eustace
21–22, 211–212, 356–358
Charles V
20–21, 225, 356, 357–358
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Man of Laws Tale
358
Cicero
De Amicitia
49–50, 53
De Inventione
85
De Officiis
13, 19, 33
De Oratore
26, 80, 158
De Partitione Oratoriae
79
on rhetoric
79–80
Topica
79
in Utopia
89
Ciceronian dialogue
157–159
circumspection
86
civic rhetoric
76
civil order
6, 8, 60–61, 99, 358
class privilege
8
Clement VII, Pope
20–21
cleverness
86
Colet, John
10
common weal
15, 165
commonwealth
12n27
compilation
97
Conrad, F.W.
81
conscience
71–74
constancy
19
continence
19
counsel and consultation
academic versus civic
211, 223
appropriateness of
30, 85–86, 160, 171, 219–221
in Bankette
39
bias in
87
counselors as physicians of the public weal
82
in Defence of Good Women
92, 93
in Dictionary
59–62
in Doctrinal of Princes
92, 103–105
in Early Modern period
3–4
education of counselors in Governors
17–18, 79–80, 82–83
Elyot’s philosophy of
80–88
fallible nature of political
84
in Governor
81–88, 91–92, 155–156
as highest function of monarchical citizen
77
humanist dilemma of
155–157
ideal counselor in Preservative
73–74
in Image of Governance
66–67
Isocrates on
101, 108–109
on judging competing proposals
84–86
in More’s Utopia
210
norms of
83–88
in Preservative Against Death
73–74
prudence
19, 30, 32, 85–86, 160
rhetoric’s purpose in
87–88
spiritual counsel
70–71
in Of That Knowlage Whiche Maketh a Wise Man
33, 90–91
timing of
160, 162–163, 164, 165, 170, 219, 222, 225–226
in Tudor England
2–3
as type of deliberative rhetoric
83–85
virtues, manners, and bearing of counselors
18, 19
Cox, Virginia
158
Cranmer, Thomas
21, 27–28, 59, 156, 167–169
Croft, Henry H.S.
4
Cromwell, Thomas
Elyot’s letters to
14, 23–24, 45–47, 49–51, 156
Elyot’s relationship with
40, 49–56
execution of
67–68
and pasquinades
29
and Of That Knowledge Whiche Maketh a Wise Man
34–35
Cyprian, Saint
36
Cyprian/Pico
25, 130
death
71–74
decency
160
decorum
30, 85–86, 90–92, 160, 165, 171, 217–224
deduction
348–349
Defence of Good Women
25
about
62–63
counsel in
92, 93
critical reception
356–360
dating of
356–357
and educational program of the Governor
352–355, 352n12
Elyot’s early politics and
8
as model of peirastic dialogue
346–352
publication and print history
127, 357, 360–361
women as governors
359–360
Delamere, Alice
7
de la Puebla, Don Fernando
22, 358
deliberative rhetoric
83–85, 96
De liberis education (Guarino de Verona)
10–11, 12
Demosthenes
79
Denny, Thomas Anthony
57
De Puebla, Gonsalvo
22n71
dialogue genre
29
Defence of Good Women
62–63, 346–352
Pasquill the Playne
157–159
Of That Knowlage Whiche Maketh a Wise Man
213–216
dialogue types
157–158
Dictionary
46
about
57–62
breadth of authors referenced
9, 58
brings favor to Elyot
51
Elyot as counselor in
59–62
posthumous editions
125
publication and print history
25, 129, 130
sources
58–59
Diogenes Laertius
“Aristippus”
31n99, 212n11
“Aristotle”
349n7
“Plato”
30n96, 209, 212–213, 225–226
Dionysius I
30, 209–210, 209n1
diversity
87
Doctrinal of Princes
additions to B
131–133
counsel in
92
doubling in
112–114, 117
Elyot as translator in
105–107
Elyot’s performative intentions
103–105
as first Greek to English translation
24
front material
130–131
importance to Elyot’s purposes
27
and Isocrates’ To Nicocles
94–95
and parainesis genre
95–97
possible Latin exemplars
119–123
publication and translation dating
25, 124–130, 226
revisions from A to B
116–118
second edition
124
semanitic analysis
107–108
stylistics
111–115
syntactic analysis
108–111
Wortham on
105–106
doubling
112–114, 117
Eden, Richard
14
Eden, Thomas
14
education, of counselors, in Governors
17–18, 79–80, 82–83, 352–355
Education or Bringing Up of Children
10–13
publication and print history
25, 128
eloquence
80
Elton, G.R.
3
Elyot, Sir Richard
7
Elyot, Sir Thomas
as ambassador
20–21, 89
assigned to arrest Tyndale
21
birth
6
Catholic sympathies accusations
45–56
as Clerk of King’s Council
13–15, 88–89
as Clerk of the Assize
7–8
commitment to scholarship
13, 23
as a contributor to English language
4n12, 5, 27, 33, 34, 59, 103–104, 117
as counselor
2–3, 13, 16–17, 21–23, 28, 59–62, 156, 211–212
and Cromwell
14, 23–24, 49–56, 156, 212
death of
74–75, 125–126
debts and expenses of
14, 23–24, 38–39
early career and philosophy
7–8
education
8–9
family
7
and Fisher’s books
44–46
and Isocrates
103–105
Isocrates and
26–27
knighted
15
and Linacre
40
neologism of
59
philosophy of counsel
83–88
philosophy of governance
19–20
property of
51, 75
religious views
45, 47–49
sensitivity to criticism
34–35
as sheriff of Cambridgeshire
23
and Thomas More
46–47, 89–91, 224–225
translation of Guarino’s De liberis educatione
10–13
translation of Isocrates’ To Nicocles
105–118, 121–123
as a translator
24, 27, 36–37, 59, 118–121, 126, 129
will of
74–75
works (See publication and print history of Elyot’s works; individual titles)
Erasmus
8, 36–37
Adagia
38
Colloquies
46
De Copia
79
De Preparatione ad mortem
71
Elyot following
1–2
Institutio principis christiani
26, 63–64, 121–122, 133
panegyric to Philip the Archduke
61
translation of Isocrates’ To Nicocles
103, 107, 112, 119, 121–122
translations of Galen
40
Facio, Bartolomeo
102
faithfulness
19
fasting
72
Fetiplace, Elizabeth (née Bessels)
7
Fetiplace, Susan
36, 37–38
fidelity
19
Fisher, John
44–46, 50
flattery
29, 66, 68–69, 74, 77–78, 155–156. See also Pasquill the Playne
fortitude
19
Foucault, Michel
32n103, 221n22, 223–224
Fox, Alistair
1, 3, 357
Foxe, Edward
167
frank speech
29, 30, 66, 78, 98–99, 160, 170, 171. See also Pasquill the Playne
friendship
49–56
Galen
9, 10, 40, 41, 42, 43
De Inaequali Intemperie
41, 43
De Temperamentis
41, 43
gentry
14
George of Trebizond
102
Georgius Agricola
9
Giustiniani, Bernardo
102, 119
governance
Elyot’s philosophy of
19–20
Isocrates on
99–100
monarchy as ideal form of
15–16, 19, 60, 73, 77, 82, 118, 131
Governor. See Boke named the Governour.
Gower, John
Confessio Amantis
155
grace
72–73, 165, 168
Grocyn, William
10
Guarino da Verona
102, 106, 121
De liberis educatione
10–11, 12
Guevara, Antonio de
Libero Aureo
65
Guy, John
3, 80, 81
Hackett, John
27–28
Helian
9
Henry VIII
appeal to, in Governor
16–17
appoints Elyot ambassador to Charles V
20–21
court life
210
and Cromwell’s execution
67–68
Elyot endorses as head of church
48–49
Governor dedicated to
15
in Image of Governance
67–68
influence in local governance
14
and John Lambert
59–60, 68
Knowlage as criticism of
224–225
marriages
27–28
offers Elyot access to Royal Library
57, 62
and Thomas More
211, 224–225
Hermogenes
79
Herodotus
9
Hesiod
9
Theogeny
223n23
Hoccleve, Thomas
Regiment of Princes
155
Hogrefe, Pearl
8, 9, 10, 37, 51, 159, 169, 224, 225
Homer
9, 17, 82
Iliad
83
Hortus vocabulorum
58
Howard, Edwin Johnston
62, 212n11, 224, 346
Howe one may take profite of his enmyes [sic], translated out of Plutarch
12n27, 125
Hyginius
9
Image of Governance
18
about
63–70
address to critics in
119–120
and dating of Elyot’s works
24–25
Elyot’s early politics and
8
ironic or satiric reading of
67–70
origin and sources of
64–66
publication and print history
25
industry
86
Inns of Chancery
9
Isocrates
13
Antidosis
97
To Demonicus
79, 83, 95, 102
Elyot’s recommendation of
128
Epistle 5: To Alexander
96
importance to humanists
26–27
Nicocles
95
To Nicocles
24, 26, 27, 36, 79, 83, 92, 94–95, 98–103 (See also Doctrinal of Princes)
Jansen, Sharon
357
Jordan, Constance
63, 350n9, 356–357
justice
19, 133, 222, 351, 354
justification by faith
168
kairos (right timing)
160, 162–163, 164, 165, 170, 219, 222, 225–226
kingship
99
knowledge
80
Lambert, John
47, 59–61, 68
Lampridius, Aelius
65
Langland, William
Piers Plowman
358–359
Lathrop, Henry Burrows
10, 102, 106
law, study of
8–9
Lee, Joyce
38
Lehmberg, Stanford
6n1, 12n27, 14, 16, 23, 54n191, 63, 74, 159, 224, 336, 358
liberal studies
8–9
Lily, William
Linacre, Thomas
10, 40, 41, 42
Livy
9
Loschi, Niccolo
102
love
18
Lucianic dialogue
157, 158–159
Lucianic dialogue type
29
Luther, Martin
45–46
Lutheranism
47, 72–73
magnanimity
19
majesty and nobility
18
Major, John
12n27, 106, 215, 224
Marsuppini, Carlo
102
maturity
86
maxims
97, 131
Middle Temple
8, 9
moderation
19
monarchy
15–16, 19, 60, 73, 77, 82, 118, 131
moral decision-making
84–86
moral philosophy
63
More, Sir Thomas
8, 9–10, 15n38, 36–37, 38, 46–47
Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation
71
Epigrammata
38
Four Last Things
71
influence of
89–91
resignation as counselor
224–225
Utopia
15n38, 89–90, 155, 210–211
Mum and the Sothsegger
155
nobility
82
North, Edward
71, 73, 74
Of That Knowlage Whiche Maketh a Wise Man
address to critics in
119–120, 166, 169
counsel in
90–91, 92, 219–224
critical controversy
224–226
and Platonic dialogue form
24, 213–216
Proheme
13
publication and print history
25, 125, 127, 129, 226–227
rhetoric and counsel in
219–224
structure of
216–219
summary of
28, 30–35
themes
212–213
opportunity of counsel
160, 162–163, 164, 165, 170, 219, 222, 225–226
oration
83
parainesis genre
94, 95–101, 121
parenting
10–13
Parkyns, John
52
parrhesia
18, 31, 32n103, 91–92, 170, 171, 209n1, 223–224
Pasquill the Playne
contemporary references in
166–169
critical discussions in literature
28n92, 157n9
criticism of Reformers in
48
dialogue type of
157–159, 170
Elyot’s performative intentions
166–171
as first English pasquinade
24
on flattery
77–78
humanist dilemma of counsel
155–157
More’s influence in
91–92
publication and print history
25, 125, 127, 169, 171–173, 226–227
rhetoric of counsel in
160–166, 170, 226
summary of
28–30
pasquinades
24, 28–29, 159
patience
19
Paul, Joanne
3n6, 28n92, 160n20
Paulus Aegineta
9
Pausanias
9
Peacham, Henry
Garden of Eloquence
223n24
peirastic dialogue
346–352
Perrotus, Nichols
Cornucopia
59
personal experience
347–348
phrasis
107, 111–112
phronesis
30, 85–86, 160, 171, 219–221
Pico della Mirandola
36–37
plain speech. See frank speech
Plato
9, 30–34, 209–210, 213–216, 225–226
Alcibiades I
215, 216
Gorgias
216
Republic
216
Theages
216
Timaeus
216
Platonic dialogue
157–159
Plutarch
10–13, 13n29, 34, 42
De Educatione Puerorum
11, 128–129
De Sanitate Tuendo
42, 43
“How one May Take Profit from His Enemies”
12n2
Life of Dion
209n1, 223, 237n27
Moralia
10–13
Parallel Lives of Greeks and Romans
12
phronesis. See prudence
Porphyrius
9
prayer
72
predestination
72–73
prudentia. See prudence
prevenient grace
47, 72, 16
Preservative Against Death
48, 70, 71–74, 127
Promptorium parvalorum
58
propriety
160, 219–221. See also “appropriateness” and “decorum”
protrepsis genre
96
providence
86
prudence
17, 19, 30, 32, 33, 63, 85–86, 160, 350–351, 353–354, 359
publication and print history of Elyot”s works
25, 70, 125, 127, 129, 130, 169, 171–173, 226–227, 357, 360–361
public weal
15
Puttenham, George
10, 11
The Art of English Poesy
162n23
Puttenham, Margery (Elyot)
7, 10–11
Puttenham, Richard
10
Quintilian
Institutio Oratoria
17, 18, 26, 79, 80, 220–221
recollection
214
reduplication
112–114
reverence
86
Reynolds, Richard
37
rhetoric
central place in Elyot’s educational scheme
78–79
Cicero on
79–80
Elyot’s negative conceptions of
77–78
purpose of, in Governor
87–88
in undemocratic conditions
76–77
rhetoric of counsel
Elyot’s articulation of
26–28, 88–93
in Pasquill the Playne
28–30, 160–166, 226
in Of That Knowlage Whiche Maketh a Wise Man
30–35
timing
32–33
Rich, Richard
166–167
right timing of counsel. See timing of counsel
Roman Catholicism. See Catholicism
“Royal Proclamation Ordering Surrender of Bishop Fisher’s Sermon, Books” (1536)
44–46, 50
scholasticism
26
Scriptores Historiae Augustae
65, 350n10
Seneca
De Benefice
55
silence
91, 163–166, 167–168
Socrates
Apology
220–221
Socratian maieutics
213–215
sola scriptura
47–48
speech, openness to
18
spiritual counsel
70–71
Stanbridge, John
Vocabula
58
Vulgaria
58
Star Chamber
14
St Lawrence Jewry
10
St Paul’s school
10
Strabo
9
succession politics
356–359
“A svvete and deuoute sermon of holy saynt ciprian of mortalitie of man”
36
sycophantism
77–78
Syon House
37
Tacitus
History
82–83
temperance
19
Terence
Adelphoe
58
Eunuchus
160, 174n3
Thucydides
9
Thynne, William
167
Tildsley, William
57
timing of counsel
160, 162–163, 164, 165, 170, 219, 222, 225–226
Trajan
12–13
translation, Elyot’s Doctrinal of Princes
about
105–107
doubling in
112–114, 117
Elyot’s anxieties as translator
118–122
possible Latin exemplars for
119–123
revisions Doctrinal from A to B
116–118
semanitic analysis
107–108
stylistics
111–115
syntactic analysis
108–111
transubstantiation
47, 59–60
The Tudor Constitution (Elton)
3
The Tudor Revolution in Government (Elton)
3
Tuke, Brian
167
Turinus
67
tutors
11
Twelve Rules
36–37
Tyndale, William
21, 121
tyranny
82
Uldericus Zasius
9
virtues, manners, and bearing of counselors
18, 19, 85–86
Vives, Juan Luis
121, 359–360
Instructions of a Christian Woman
360
Walker, Greg
1, 3–4, 37, 39, 61, 68, 103, 156, 167, 172, 225, 226, 357, 358.
Wars of the Roses
6–7
Watson, Foster
63, 352, 352n12, 356
wealth
72
Wiltshire
7
wisdom
19, 31–32, 61, 85–86, 218–219
Wolsey, Thomas, Cardinal
13–14
Wortham, James
105–106
Xenocrates
9
Xenophon
9
Memorabilia
212n11
Zenobia, Queen
350–351, 354–355