The Cambridge Connection in Tudor England

Humanism, Reform, Rhetoric, Politics

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This book highlights the famous ‘Athenian tribe’: a group of humanist scholars in the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI and Elizabeth I, who resolved many difficult problems concerning the Tudor succession, diplomacy, and the English Church. They included Sir John Cheke as their early leader, and with him, Roger Ascham, Thomas Smith, and John Ponet. William Cecil, Lord Burghley, Queen Elizabeth’s invaluable chief minister, was the most influential of them all. The Cambridge Connection explores the interdependency of scholarship, politics, and religion in the sixteenth century. The ‘Athenian tribe’ was essential to the shaping of mid-Tudor cultural life. They left a lasting imprint on early modern England.
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2022
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John F. McDiarmid, PhD (1980, in English Literature, Yale University), was Emeritus Professor of British and American Literature at New College of Florida. He was the editor of The Monarchical Republic of Early Modern England (2007).

Susan Wabuda, PhD (1992, in History, University of Cambridge), is Professor of History at Fordham University. She has published extensively on the English Reformation, Bible reading, the making of John Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, pulpits and preaching, Anne Askew, and Thomas Cranmer.
Acknowledgements  
Susan Wabuda

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Notes on Contributors

 Introduction The Cambridge Connection in Tudor Politics, Religion and Learning
  Susan Wabuda and John F. McDiarmid

Part 1
The Starting Point for the Athenians: Classical Rhetoric and Its Tudor Applications
1 Perfecting Eloquence, Perfecting England The Pattern of Cambridge Humanist Thought
  John F. McDiarmid

2 Disputed Sounds Thomas Smith on the Pronunciation of Ancient Greek – Representing the Evanescent in Sound and Image
  Richard Simpson

3 John Cheke’s Greek Scholarship in Translation
  Andrew W. Taylor

Part 2
Cambridge Humanists and the English Reformation
4 `We Walk as Pilgrims’ Agnes Cheke and Cambridge, c. 1500–1549
  Susan Wabuda

5 New Perspectives on Cambridge’s Role in the Religious Reformation Roger Ascham and the Early Edwardian Religious Debates at the University
  Lucy Rachel Nicholas

6 The Cambridge Connection and the ‘Strangeness’ of Italian Reformers, 1547–1556
  M. Anne Overell

Part 3
Cambridge Humanists and the Polity
7 ‘Commonweal Men’ and the Government of Mid–Tudor England
  Alan Bryson

8 Civil Instruction Ordering the Godly Commonweal in John Cheke’s Marital Correspondence
  Cathy Shrank

9 The Cambridge Connection and the Shaping of the Elizabethan State
  Norman Jones

10 The Cambridge Connection and the Early Elizabethan Diplomatic Corps
  Tracey A. Sowerby

11 A Continuing Connection The Cambridge group and the University of Cambridge, c. 1547–1598
  Ceri Law

12 The End of the Cambridge Connection
  Glyn Parry

Index

History and English literature specialists; scholars of the Renaissance; Reformation scholars; ecclesiastical historians; early modernists; post-graduate students; university and academic libraries; educated readers who enjoy Tudor history.
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Publisher:
Brill
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 346 pp.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004382251

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