Reassessing Tudor Humanism [Paperback]

This collection of essays by an international team of experts, explores the wideranging impact of Renaissance humanism on sixteenth century England. Investigating areas as diverse as art, education, religion, political thought, literature and science, the book offers fresh and challenging accounts of prominent Tudor figures such as Thomas More, William Tyndale and John Foxe. As well as historiographical overviews of the subject and a discussion of the fifteenth century background to Tudor developments, one of the book's central themes is the nature of England's fundamental cultural experiences in relation to continental Europe.List of Figures Preface Abbreviations Notes on the Contributors Introduction; J.Woolfson Humanism before the Tudors: On Nobility and the Reception of studia humanitatis in Fifteenth-Century England; D.Rundle Richard Pace's De fructu and Early Tudor Pedagogy; C.Curtis The Trouble with English Humanism: Tyndale, More, and Darling Erasmus; A.Stewart Henry VIII's Library and Humanist Donors: Gian Matteo Giberti as a Case Study; J.P.Carley Humanism and Art in the Early Tudor Period: John Leland's Poetic Praise of Painting; S.Foister Edwardian Court Humanism and Il Beneficio di Cristo , 1547-1553; M.A.Overell John Foxe and Tudor Humanism; J.N.King The Humanist Latin Tradition Re-assessed; J.W.Binns Between Bruni and Hobbes: Aristotle's Politics in Tudor Intellectual Culture; J.Woolfson Humanism and Science in the Elizabethan Universities; R.Goulding Humanism and Literature in Late Tudor England: Translation, the Continental Book, and the Case of Montaigne's Essais ; W.Boutcher Select Bibliography Index

'Woolfson has clearly brought together an excellent team of scholars whose works advance the importance of English scholars...' - David B. Mock, History: Reviews of New Books

'All in all, an enlightening and refreshing volume, full of intelligently handled and telling detail.' - J.B. Trapp, Warburg Institute, EHR

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