Humanism And Protestantism In Early Modern English Education

Author : Ian Green
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317119623

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Humanism and Protestantism in Early Modern English Education by Ian Green Pdf

This volume is the first attempt to assess the impact of both humanism and Protestantism on the education offered to a wide range of adolescents in the hundreds of grammar schools operating in England between the Reformation and the Enlightenment. By placing that education in the context of Lutheran, Calvinist and Jesuit education abroad, it offers an overview of the uses to which Latin and Greek were put in English schools, and identifies the strategies devised by clergy and laity in England for coping with the tensions between classical studies and Protestant doctrine. It also offers a reassessment of the role of the 'godly' in English education, and demonstrates the many ways in which a classical education came to be combined with close support for the English Crown and established church. One of the major sources used is the school textbooks which were incorporated into the 'English Stock' set up by leading members of the Stationers' Company of London and reproduced in hundreds of thousands of copies during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Although the core of classical education remained essentially the same for two centuries, there was a growing gulf between the methods by which classics were taught in elite institutions such as Winchester and Westminster and in the many town and country grammar schools in which translations or bilingual versions of many classical texts were given to weaker students. The success of these new translations probably encouraged editors and publishers to offer those adults who had received little or no classical education new versions of works by Aesop, Cicero, Ovid, Virgil, Seneca and Caesar. This fascination with ancient Greece and Rome left its mark not only on the lifestyle and literary tastes of the educated elite, but also reinforced the strongly moralistic outlook of many of the English laity who equated virtue and good works with pleasing God and meriting salvation.

Author : Ian Green
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317119616

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Humanism and Protestantism in Early Modern English Education by Ian Green Pdf

This volume is the first attempt to assess the impact of both humanism and Protestantism on the education offered to a wide range of adolescents in the hundreds of grammar schools operating in England between the Reformation and the Enlightenment. By placing that education in the context of Lutheran, Calvinist and Jesuit education abroad, it offers an overview of the uses to which Latin and Greek were put in English schools, and identifies the strategies devised by clergy and laity in England for coping with the tensions between classical studies and Protestant doctrine. It also offers a reassessment of the role of the 'godly' in English education, and demonstrates the many ways in which a classical education came to be combined with close support for the English Crown and established church. One of the major sources used is the school textbooks which were incorporated into the 'English Stock' set up by leading members of the Stationers' Company of London and reproduced in hundreds of thousands of copies during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Although the core of classical education remained essentially the same for two centuries, there was a growing gulf between the methods by which classics were taught in elite institutions such as Winchester and Westminster and in the many town and country grammar schools in which translations or bilingual versions of many classical texts were given to weaker students. The success of these new translations probably encouraged editors and publishers to offer those adults who had received little or no classical education new versions of works by Aesop, Cicero, Ovid, Virgil, Seneca and Caesar. This fascination with ancient Greece and Rome left its mark not only on the lifestyle and literary tastes of the educated elite, but also reinforced the strongly moralistic outlook of many of the English laity who equated virtue and good works with pleasing God and meriting salvation.

Author : Hyun-Ah Kim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317019398

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The Praise of Musicke, 1586 by Hyun-Ah Kim Pdf

This volume provides the first printed critical edition of The Praise of Musicke (1586), keeping the original text intact and accompanied by an analytical commentary. Against the Puritan attacks on liturgical music, The Praise of Musicke, the first apologetic treatise on music in English, epitomizes the Renaissance defence of music in civil and religious life. While existing studies of The Praise of Musicke are limited to the question of authorship, the present volume scrutinizes its musical discourse, which recapitulates major issues in the ancient philosophy and theology of music, considering the contemporary practice of sacred and secular music. Through an interdisciplinary analysis of The Praise of Musicke, combining historical musicology with philosophical theology, this study situates the treatise and its author within the wider historical, intellectual and religious context of musical polemics and apologetics of the English Reformation, thereby appraising its significance in the history of musical theory and literature. The book throws fresh light on this substantial but neglected treatise that presents, with critical insights, the most learned discussion of music from classical antiquity to the Renaissance and Reformation era. In doing so it offers a new interpretation of the treatise, which marks a milestone in the history of musical apologetics.

Author : Katherine C. Little
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192883216

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Humanism and Good Books in Sixteenth-Century England by Katherine C. Little Pdf

This book explores sixteenth-century humanism as an origin for the idea of literature as good, even great, books. It argues that humanists located the value of books not only in the goodness of their writing-their eloquence—but also in their capacity to shape readers in good and bad behavior, thoughts, and feelings, in other words, in their morality. To approach humanism in this way, by attending to its moral interests, is to provide a new perspective on periodization, the transition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance / early modern. That is, humanists did not so much rupture with medieval ideas about literature or with medieval models as they adapted and altered them, offering a new confidence about an old idea: the moral instructiveness of pagan, classical texts for Christian readers. This revaluation of literature was a double-edged sword. On the one hand, humanist confidence inspired authors to invent their own good books—good in style and morals—in morality plays such as Everyman and the Christian Terence tradition and in educational treatises such as Sir Thomas Elyot's Boke of the Governour. On the other hand, humanism placed a new burden on authors, requiring their work to teach and delight. In the wake of humanism, authors struggled to articulate the value of their work for readers, returning to a pre-humanist path that they associated with Geoffrey Chaucer. This medieval-inflected doubt pervades the late sixteenth-century writings of the most prolific and influential Elizabethans-Robert Greene, George Gascoigne, and Edmund Spenser.

Author : Ted Tregear
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192868497

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Anthologizing Shakespeare, 1593-1603 by Ted Tregear Pdf

Between 1599 and 1601, no fewer than five anthologies appeared in print with extracts from Shakespeare's works. Some featured whole poems, while others chose short passages from his poems and plays, gathered alongside lines on similar topics by his rivals and contemporaries. Appearing midway through his career, these anthologies marked a critical moment in Shakespeare's life. They testify to the reputation he had established as a poet and playwright by the end of the sixteenth century. In extracting passages from their contexts, though, they also read Shakespeare in ways that he might have imagined being read. After all, this was how early modern readers were taught to treat the texts they read, selecting choice excerpts and copying them into their notebooks. Taking its cue from these anthologies, Anthologizing Shakespeare, 1593-1603 offers new readings of the formative works of Shakespeare's first decade in print, from Venus and Adonis (1593) to Hamlet (1603). It illuminates a previously neglected period in Shakespeare's career, what it calls his 'anthology period'. It investigates what these anthologies made of Shakespeare, and what he made of being anthologized. And it shows how, from the early 1590s, his works were inflected by the culture of commonplacing and anthologizing in which they were written, and in which Shakespeare, no less than his readers, was schooled. In this book, Ted Tregear explores how Shakespeare appealed to the reading habits of his contemporaries, inviting and frustrating them in turn. Shakespeare, he argues, used the practice of anthologizing to open up questions at the heart of his poems and plays: questions of classical literature and the schoolrooms in which it was taught; of English poetry and its literary inheritance; of poetry's relationship with drama; and of the afterlife he and his works might win--at least in parts.

Author : Rebecca W. Bushnell
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Education
ISBN : 0801483565

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A Culture of Teaching by Rebecca W. Bushnell Pdf

In pedagogical manuals strongly reminiscent of gardening guides, the scholar was seen as both a pliant vine and a force of nature.

Author : Ian Hazlett
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004335950

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A Companion to the Reformation in Scotland, c.1525–1638 by Ian Hazlett Pdf

A Companion to the Reformation in Scotland deals with the making, shaping, and development of the Scottish Reformation. 28 authors offer new analyses of various features of a religious revolution and select personalities in evolving theological, cultural, and political contexts.

Author : Gregory D. Dodds
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442693159

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Exploiting Erasmus by Gregory D. Dodds Pdf

Desiderius Erasmus' humanist works were influential throughout Europe, in various areas of thought including theology, education, philology, and political theory. Exploiting Erasmus examines the legacy of Erasmus in England from the mid-sixteenth century to the overthrow of James II in 1688 and studies the various ways in which his works were received, manipulated, and used in religious controversies that threatened both church and state. In viewing movements and events such as the rise of anti-Calvinism, the religious politics leading to the English civil war, and the emergence of the Latitudinarians during the Restoration, Gregory D. Dodds provides a fascinating account not only of the reception and effects of Erasmus' works, but also of the early history of English Protestantism. Exploiting Erasmus offers a critical new angle for rethinking the theology and rhetoric of the time. It is a remarkable study of Erasmus' influence on issues of conformity, tolerance, war, and peace.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UCD:31175034440084

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Notes and Queries by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2426 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Languages, Modern
ISBN : PSU:000057121345

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MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michael Hunter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351908863

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Printed Images in Early Modern Britain by Michael Hunter Pdf

Printed images were ubiquitous in early modern Britain, and they often convey powerful messages which are all the more important for having circulated widely at the time. Yet, by comparison with printed texts, these images have been neglected, particularly by historians to whom they ought to be of the greatest interest. This volume helps remedy this state of affairs. Complementing the online digital library of British Printed Images to 1700 (www.bpi1700.org.uk), it offers a series of essays which exemplify the many ways in which such visual material can throw light on the history of the period. Ranging from religion to politics, polemic to satire, natural science to consumer culture, the collection explores how printed images need to be read in terms of the visual syntax understood by contemporaries, their full meaning often only becoming clear when they are located in the context in which they were produced and deployed. The result is not only to illustrate the sheer richness of material of this kind, but also to underline the importance of the messages which it conveys, which often come across more strongly in visual form than through textual commentaries. With contributions from many leading exponents of the cultural history of early modern Britain, including experts on religion, politics, science and art, the book's appeal will be equally wide, demonstrating how every facet of British culture in the period can be illuminated through the study of printed images.

Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2744 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Bibliography, National
ISBN : STANFORD:36105211722686

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The British National Bibliography by Arthur James Wells Pdf

Author : Markku Peltonen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107028296

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Rhetoric, Politics and Popularity in Pre-Revolutionary England by Markku Peltonen Pdf

This book provides an account of early modern political culture by emphasizing the centrality of humanist rhetoric in it.

Author : Terry Grey Sherwood
Publisher : Duquesne
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Common good
ISBN : UCSC:32106018980554

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The Self in Early Modern Literature by Terry Grey Sherwood Pdf

"Responding to the debate stimulated by cultural materialist and new historicist claims that the early modern self was fragmented by forces in Elizabethan England, Sherwood argues that the self was capable of unified subjectivity, demonstrating that the intersection of Protestant vocation and Christian civic humanism was a stabilizing factor in the early modern construction of self"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Warren Vincent Boutcher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009676797

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Florio's Montaigne by Warren Vincent Boutcher Pdf