The Cambridge Connection in Tudor England: Humanism, Reform, Rhetoric, Politics

Author:   John F. McDiarmid ,  Susan Wabuda
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Pages:   346
Publication Date:   09 December 2021
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Author:   John F. McDiarmid ,  Susan Wabuda
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Weight:   0.725kg
ISBN:  

9789004382244


ISBN 10:   9004382240
Pages:   346
Publication Date:   09 December 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Acknowledgements Susan Wabuda Abbreviations 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

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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.

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