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Author Green, I. M.

Title Humanism and Protestantism in early modern English education / Ian Green
Published Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 373 pages) : illustrations
Series St Andrews studies in Reformation history
St. Andrews studies in Reformation history.
Contents Historiography and sources -- Grammar schools and grammar teachers in Protestant England -- The uses of Latin in the lower forms of grammar schools -- The uses of Latin and Greek in the senior forms and universities -- Protestant influences in grammar schools and universities -- Assessing the impact
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Education -- England -- History
Education, Humanistic -- England -- History
Humanism -- England -- History
Protestantism -- England -- History
EDUCATION -- History.
EDUCATION -- Comparative.
Education
Education, Humanistic
Humanism
Protestantism
England
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780754694687
0754694682
075466368X
9780754663683