The Cambridge Connection in Tudor England

Humanism, Reform, Rhetoric, Politics
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-38224-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 346 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 636 g

Reihe: St Andrews Studies in Reformation History

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McDiarmid, John F

Wabuda, Susan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Mittelalterliche & Scholastische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Alternative Glaubensformen Agnostizismus, Atheismus, Säkularer Humanismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Abbreviations

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Susan Wabuda

INTRODUCTION

The Cambridge Connection in Tudor Politics, Religion and Learning

Susan Wabuda and John F. McDiarmid

PART ONE

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 TWO

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 THREE

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

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.