Aysha Pollnitz

Princely Education in Early Modern Britain

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Produktbeschreibung

This book shows how liberal education taught Tudor and Stuart monarchs to wield pens like swords and transformed political culture in early modern Britain.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 460
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 150mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 771g
• ISBN-13: 9781107039520
• ISBN-10: 1107039525
• Artikelnr.: 42362574

Autorenporträt

Aysha Pollnitz was educated at the University of Sydney and Trinity College, Cambridge, where she was subsequently elected a Junior Research Fellow in Renaissance History. She has taught at Georgetown University, Washington DC and Grinnell College, Iowa. In 2016 she became an Assistant Professor of History at Rice University, Houston. Pollnitz has published essays on humanism, liberal education, Tudor and Stuart court culture, Shakespeare, and religious translation.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. 'Thys boke is myne': how humanism changed the English royal schoolroom, 1422-1509
2. Chivalry, ambition, and bonae litterae, 1509-33
3. Erasmus' Christian prince and Henry VIII's royal supremacy
4. Educating Edward VI: from Erasmus and godly kingship to Machiavelli
5. Fortune's wheel and the education of early modern British queens
6. Education and royal resistance: George Buchanan and James VI and I
7. Britain's lost Renaissance? The Stuart princes
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index.