Reassessing Tudor Humanism

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

J.W. BINNS Reader in Latin Literature, University of York WARREN BOUTCHER Lecturer in Renaissance Studies, School of English Drama, Queen Mary, University of London JAMES P. CARLEY Distinguished Research Professor, York University, Toronto CATHY CURTIS Independent Scholar SUSAN FOISTER Curator of Early Netherlandish, German and British Painting, National Gallery ROBERT GOULDING Cotsen Fellow in the Humanities and Lecturer, History of Science, Princeton University JOHN N. KING Professor of English, Ohio State University M.A. OVERELL Research Associate and Tutor, Open University DAVID RUNDLE Lyell Research Fellow in Palaeography, Oxford University ALAN STEWART Reader in Renaissance Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London