Roger Ascham is often classified as ‘a great mid-Tudor
humanist’ and he is perhaps best recognised for his role as tutor
to Elizabeth I. His most famous works, The Scholemaster and
Toxophilus, have been extensively excerpted in studies on prose
style and English humanism. By contrast, his Latin works that
centred on theology and key Reformation concerns have languished in
the shadows of modern scholarship. Ascham’s Themata Theologica
(Theological Propositions), composed in the late 1530s and early
1540s, is one of these. This little-known text of eleven
‘themes’ offers a rare opportunity both to trace the course of
Ascham’s own religious development and to take the temperature of
the confessional climate at Cambridge University during one of the
most turbulent periods of the Reformation. The present edition, in
addition to producing the first English translation of this text,
aims to show the ways in which this work can cast fresh light on
sixteenth-century intellectual culture by illuminating a critical
phase of religious reform and biblical scholarship in England.The
essays set forth in this volume present key insights into what
Ascham considered essential in the English Church, and how his
Christian compatriots should worship.
General
Imprint: |
Bloomsbury Academic
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Bloomsbury Neo-Latin Series: Early Modern Texts and Anthologies |
Release date: |
October 2023 |
Authors: |
Lucy R Nicholas
|
Dimensions: |
216 x 138mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
264 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-350-26794-7 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-350-26794-5 |
Barcode: |
9781350267947 |
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