Reassessing Tudor Humanism

J.W. BINNS Reader in Latin Literature, University of YorkWARREN BOUTCHER Lecturer in Renaissance Studies, School of English Drama, Queen Mary, University of LondonJAMES P. CARLEY Distinguished Research Professor, York University, TorontoCATHY CURTIS Independent ScholarSUSAN FOISTER Curator of Early Netherlandish, German and British Painting, National GalleryROBERT GOULDING Cotsen Fellow in the Humanities and Lecturer, History of Science, Princeton UniversityJOHN N. KING Professor of English, Ohio State UniversityM.A. OVERELL Research Associate and Tutor, Open UniversityDAVID RUNDLE Lyell Research Fellow in Palaeography, Oxford UniversityALAN STEWART Reader in Renaissance Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London

'Woolfson has clearly brought together an excellent team of scholars whose works advance the importance of English scholars...' - David B. Mock, History: Reviews of New Books 'All in all, an enlightening and refreshing volume, full of intelligently handled and telling detail.' - J.B. Trapp, Warburg Institute, EHR

• List of Figures Preface Abbreviations Notes on the Contributors Introduction; J.Woolfson Humanism before the Tudors: On Nobility and the Reception of studia humanitatis in Fifteenth-Century England; D.Rundle Richard Pace's De fructu and Early Tudor Pedagogy; C.Curtis The Trouble with English Humanism: Tyndale, More, and Darling Erasmus; A.Stewart Henry VIII's Library and Humanist Donors: Gian Matteo Giberti as a Case Study; J.P.Carley Humanism and Art in the Early Tudor Period: John Leland's Poetic Praise of Painting; S.Foister Edwardian Court Humanism and Il Beneficio di Cristo , 1547-1553; M.A.Overell John Foxe and Tudor Humanism; J.N.King The Humanist Latin Tradition Re-assessed; J.W.Binns Between Bruni and Hobbes: Aristotle's Politics in Tudor Intellectual Culture; J.Woolfson Humanism and Science in the Elizabethan Universities; R.Goulding Humanism and Literature in Late Tudor England: Translation, the Continental Book, and the Case of Montaigne's Essais ; W.Boutcher Select Bibliography Index