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