Princely Education in Early Modern Britain

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

List of contents

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.

About the author

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.

Summary

This book shows how liberal education transformed the political and religious culture of early modern Britain. Rather than pursue vainglorious warfare, humanists taught monarchs, including Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, James VI, and Charles I, to wield their pens like swords to extend their imperial authority over church and state.

Product details

• Authors: Aysha Pollnitz, Aysha (Grinnell College Pollnitz, Pollnitz Aysha
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2015
• EAN: 9781107039520
• ISBN: 978-1-107-03952-0
• No. of pages: 460
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History; Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History; Cambridge Studies in Early Mod
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes; Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); History of Ideas, European History, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, c 1500 onwards to present day, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Social and cultural history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599