Roger Ascham and His Sixteenth-Century World

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-38227-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 358 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

Reihe: St Andrews Studies in Reformation History

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nicholas, Lucy R

Law, Ceri

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).