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Toxophilus -The School Of Shooting (History of Archery Series)
Roger Ascham This work comprises of two books combined together:
The First Book of the School of Shooting and The Second Book of the
School of Shooting. They are written in the form of a dialogue
between Toxophilus 'A lover of the bow' and Philogus 'A lover of
learning'. In the discussion Toxophilus justifies his love of
archery as a pastime, puts forward his reasons for retaining the
bow as a weapon of war instead of the newly favoured hand gun, and
he gives practical instructions on the technique of shooting in the
bow. Contents Include - Chronicle of the life, Works, and Times of
Roger - Ascham - Apologia - The Royal Arms - Dedication to the King
Henry VIII - To All Gentlemen and Yeoman of England - The First
Book Of The School Of Shooting- The Second Book Of The School Of
Shooting - The Table Of Contents Of The First Book Of The School Of
Shooting - The Table Of The Second Book Of The School Of Shooting -
Glossary of Old Words - Imprints of the first two editions of
Toxophilus - Originally published in 1544. Many of the earliest
books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are
now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Obscure Press are
republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality,
modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
The Tudor writer Roger Ascham (c.1514 1568) was royal tutor to
Princess Elizabeth. Ascham is best known for his works Toxophilus
(1545) and The Scholemaster (1570) which were edited, together with
his Report of the Affairs and State of Germany (1570), by the
renowned literary scholar William Aldis Wright (1831 1914) and
published in 1904 as part of the Cambridge English Classics series.
Toxophilus, a Ciceronian dialogue between Philologus (the lover of
study) and Toxophilus (the lover of the bow), articulates the
importance of physical training to a gentleman's education. The
Scholemaster, which was published posthumously, consists of two
books. The first describes the character and teaching methods of
the ideal tutor and the second advocates teaching languages by
double translation. Ascham's English prose came to be seen as a
model for how classical principles of form and organisation could
be applied to the vernacular.
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