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.

• Acknowledgements  Susan WabudaAbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction The Cambridge Connection in Tudor Politics, Religion and LearningSusan Wabuda and John F. McDiarmidPart 1The Starting Point for the Athenians: Classical Rhetoric and Its Tudor Applications1 Perfecting Eloquence, Perfecting England The Pattern of Cambridge Humanist ThoughtJohn F. McDiarmid2 Disputed Sounds Thomas Smith on the Pronunciation of Ancient Greek – Representing the Evanescent in Sound and ImageRichard Simpson3 John Cheke’s Greek Scholarship in Translation Andrew W. TaylorPart 2Cambridge Humanists and the English Reformation4 `We Walk as Pilgrims’ Agnes Cheke and Cambridge, c. 1500–1549Susan Wabuda5 New Perspectives on Cambridge’s Role in the Religious Reformation Roger Ascham and the Early Edwardian Religious Debates at the UniversityLucy Rachel Nicholas6 The Cambridge Connection and the ‘Strangeness’ of Italian Reformers, 1547–1556 M. Anne OverellPart 3Cambridge Humanists and the Polity7 ‘Commonweal Men’ and the Government of Mid–Tudor EnglandAlan Bryson8 Civil Instruction Ordering the Godly Commonweal in John Cheke’s Marital CorrespondenceCathy Shrank9 The Cambridge Connection and the Shaping of the Elizabethan StateNorman Jones10 The Cambridge Connection and the Early Elizabethan Diplomatic CorpsTracey A. Sowerby11 A Continuing Connection The Cambridge group and the University of Cambridge, c. 1547–1598Ceri Law12 The End of the Cambridge ConnectionGlyn ParryIndex