Abbreviations and References
This volume contains a full bibliography (pp. 321–345). It contains details of the archives, manuscripts, primary and secondary printed works referred to in each chapter. It does not, however, itemise the books identified as Ascham’s own in appendix 2 (‘Ascham’s Bookshelf’). All bibliographical references are also set out in full in the footnotes of each chapter, except for the following, which are abbreviated as follows:
‘Giles’ refers to J. A. Giles (ed.), The Whole Works of Roger Ascham (3 vols., London: John Russell Smith, 1865–1867). References to this edition are intended to assist as much as possible with navigation, and include the volume and page number/s. In the case of letters, the place and date are provided and the Giles letter number (in Roman numerals).
‘Hatch’ refers to Maurice Addison Hatch, The Ascham Letters: An Annotated Translation of the Latin Correspondence, unpublished dissertation, Cornell University (1946).
‘Hatch and Vos’ refers to Letters of Roger Ascham, trans. Maurice Hatch and Alvin Vos, ed. Alvin Vos (New York: P. Lang, 1989).
odnb refers to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
‘Ryan, Ascham’ refers to Lawrence V. Ryan, Roger Ascham (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1963).
Where electronic resources have been used, authors provide the website address in full, except for individual entries from the online edition of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (‘odnb’) at <