EUR 208,80 €net 174,00 € excl. VAT
Roger Ascham and His Sixteenth-Century World
Reihe:
The 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.
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.
Lucy R. Nicholas, Ph.D. (2014) is Lecturer in Latin and Ancient Greek at the Warburg Institute and a teaching fellow in Classics at King’s College London. She has published widely on Ascham, including her monograph Roger Ascham’s 'A Defence of the Lord’s Supper': Latin Text and English Translation (Brill, 2017).
Ceri Law is an independent scholar who received her Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 2014 and is the author of Contested Reformations in the University of Cambridge, 1535–84 (Royal Historical Society, 2018).
Ceri Law is an independent scholar who received her Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 2014 and is the author of Contested Reformations in the University of Cambridge, 1535–84 (Royal Historical Society, 2018).
Acknowledgements
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
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
This multi-disciplinary volume is of interest to postgraduate students and scholars of the early modern period, especially those working in the fields of history, English literature and Neo-Latin.