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The Honorable Burden of Public Office

English Humanists and Tudor Politics in the Sixteenth Century

by J.M. Anderson (Author)
©2010 Monographs XXIV, 278 Pages

Summary

The Honorable Burden of Public Office traces the rise of civic humanism in England through the lives and careers of six prominent Elizabethans – John Cheke, Walter Haddon, Thomas Wilson, Thomas Smith, Nicholas Bacon, and William Cecil. It not only recreates the network of intricate relationships and activities that reshaped Elizabethan political culture, it explores the connections between English humanism and the Continental Renaissance, and it shows the development of England’s emerging classical culture within a broader European context. A solid, detailed, and original scholarly work based on extensive archival research, The Honorable Burden of Public Office demonstrates how the integration of ideas and actions transformed politics and society in the sixteenth century.

Details

Pages
XXIV, 278
Publication Year
2010
ISBN (PDF)
9781453900215
ISBN (Hardcover)
9781433109577
DOI
10.3726/978-1-4539-0021-5
Language
English
Publication date
2010 (November)
Keywords
Ascham, Roger+D1 civic humanism renaissance England education politics culture, society sixteenth century Cheke, John Sir Thomas Smith Haddon, Walter Bacon, Nicholas Ascham, Roger humanism intellectual life Wilson, Thomas William Cecil
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2010. XXIV, 278 pp.

Biographical notes

J.M. Anderson (Author)

The Author: J. M. Anderson received his Ph.D. in history from Syracuse University. He has recently finished a manuscript on liberal education and teaching and is currently working on a history of love from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries.

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