Research Catalog

Title

The Cambridge connection in Tudor England : humanism, reform, rhetoric, politics / edited by John F. McDiarmid and Susan Wabuda.

Publication

• Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]
• ©2022

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Details

Additional Authors

• McDiarmid, John F., 1947-
• Wabuda, Susan

Description

xiv, 346 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

"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."----Publisher's webpage.

Series Statement

St Andrews studies in Reformation history, 2468-4317

Uniform Title

St. Andrews studies in Reformation history.

Alternative Title

Humanism, reform, rhetoric, politics

Subject

• 1485-1603
• Intellectual life
• Politics and government
• Religion
• England > Intellectual life > 16th century
• Great Britain > Politics and government > 1485-1603
• England > Religion > 16th century
• England
• Great Britain

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: The Cambridge connection in Tudor politics, religion, and learning / Susan Wabuda, John F. McDiarmid -- Part 1. The starting point for the Athenians: classical rhetoric and its Tudor applications. Perfecting eloquence, perfecting England: the pattern of Cambridge humanist thought / John F. McDiarmid -- Disputed sounds: Thomas Smith on the pronunciation of ancient Greek: representing the evanescent in sound and image / Richard SImpson -- John Cheke's Greek scholarship in translation / Andrew W. Taylor -- Part 2. Cambridge humanists and the English Reformation. 'We walk as pilgrims': Agnes Cheke and Cambridge, c. 1500-1549 / Susan Wabuda -- New perspectives on Cambridge's role in the religious reformation: Roger Ascham and the early Edwardian religious debates at the University / Lucy Rachel Nicholas -- The Cambridge connection and the 'strangeness' of Italian reformers, 1547-1556 / M. Anne Overell -- Part 3. Cambridge humanists and the polity. 'Commonweal men' and the government of mid-Tudor England / Alan Bryson -- Civil instructions: ordering the godly commonweal in John Cheke's marital correspondence / Cathy Shrank -- The Cambridge connection and the shaping of the Elizabethan state / Norman Jones -- The Cambridge connection and the early Elizabethan diplomatic corps / Tracey A. Sowerby -- A continuing connection: the Cambridge group and the University of Cambridge, c. 1547-1598 / Ceri Law -- The end of the Cambridge connection / Glyn Parry.

Call Number

JFE 22-2677

ISBN

• 9789004382244
• 9004382240

LCCN

2021950978

OCLC

1263742141

Title

The Cambridge connection in Tudor England : humanism, reform, rhetoric, politics / edited by John F. McDiarmid and Susan Wabuda.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

St Andrews studies in Reformation history, 2468-4317

St. Andrews studies in Reformation history.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1485-1603

Added Author

McDiarmid, John F., 1947- editor.

Wabuda, Susan, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 22-2677