The Cambridge Connection in Tudor England

John F. McDiarmid, PhD (1980, in English Literature, Yale University), was Emeritus Professor of British and American Literature at New College of Florida. He was the editor of The Monarchical Republic of Early Modern England (2007). Susan Wabuda, PhD (1992, in History, University of Cambridge), is Professor of History at Fordham University. She has published extensively on the English Reformation, Bible reading, the making of John Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, pulpits and preaching, Anne Askew, and Thomas Cranmer.

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Susan Wabuda



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Notes on Contributors


 Introduction The Cambridge Connection in Tudor Politics, Religion and Learning

  Susan Wabuda and John F. McDiarmid



Part 1

The Starting Point for the Athenians: Classical Rhetoric and Its Tudor Applications

1 Perfecting Eloquence, Perfecting England The Pattern of Cambridge Humanist Thought

  John F. McDiarmid



2 Disputed Sounds Thomas Smith on the Pronunciation of Ancient Greek – Representing the Evanescent in Sound and Image

  Richard Simpson



3 John Cheke’s Greek Scholarship in Translation

  Andrew W. Taylor



Part 2

Cambridge Humanists and the English Reformation

4 `We Walk as Pilgrims’ Agnes Cheke and Cambridge, c. 1500–1549

  Susan Wabuda



5 New Perspectives on Cambridge’s Role in the Religious Reformation Roger Ascham and the Early Edwardian Religious Debates at the University

  Lucy Rachel Nicholas



6 The Cambridge Connection and the ‘Strangeness’ of Italian Reformers, 1547–1556

  M. Anne Overell



Part 3

Cambridge Humanists and the Polity

7 ‘Commonweal Men’ and the Government of Mid–Tudor England

  Alan Bryson



8 Civil Instruction Ordering the Godly Commonweal in John Cheke’s Marital Correspondence

  Cathy Shrank



9 The Cambridge Connection and the Shaping of the Elizabethan State

  Norman Jones



10 The Cambridge Connection and the Early Elizabethan Diplomatic Corps

  Tracey A. Sowerby



11 A Continuing Connection The Cambridge group and the University of Cambridge, c. 1547–1598

  Ceri Law



12 The End of the Cambridge Connection

  Glyn Parry



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