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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778049703321

Autore

Green I. M

Titolo

Humanism and Protestantism in early modern English education [[electronic resource] /] / Ian M. Green

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hants, England ; ; Burlington, : Ashgate, c2009

ISBN

1-315-58757-2

1-317-11962-2

1-317-11961-4

1-282-24360-8

9786612243608

0-7546-9468-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (401 p.)

Collana

St Andrews studies in Reformation history

Disciplina

370.942

370.9420903

Soggetti

Education - England - History

Education, Humanistic - England - History

Humanism - England - History

Protestantism - England - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Preface; Abbreviations; 1 Historiography and Sources; 2 Grammar Schools and Grammar Teachers in Protestant England; 3 The Uses of Latin in the Lower Forms of Grammar Schools; 4 The Uses of Latin and Greek in the Senior Forms and Universities; 5 Protestant Influences in Grammar Schools and Universities; 6 Assessing the Impact; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This volume is the first attempt to assess the impact of both humanism and Protestantism on the education offered to a wide range of adolescents in the hundreds of grammar schools operating in England between the Reformation and the Enlightenment. By placing that education in the context of Lutheran, Calvinist and Jesuit education abroad, it offers an overview of the uses to which Latin and Greek were put in English schools, and identifies the strategies devised by clergy



and laity in England for coping with the tensions between classical studies and Protestant doctrine. It also offers a reass