Lord Henry Howard (1540-1614): an Elizabethan Life (eBook)

D. C. Andersson (Autor)

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2009
240 Seiten
Boydell & Brewer Ltd (Verlag)
9781846157424 (ISBN)

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First full biography of the Elizabethan Henry Howard, one of the most influential noblemen of his time, tracing his chequered career and placing him in the context of Renaissance humanism.`A profound and sophisticated understanding of Howard's intellectual universe and literary production'. JONATHAN WOOLFSON Born the second son of the poet Earl of Surrey, Henry Howard was a Cambridge scholar, courtier and crypto-Catholic intriguer of suspicious repute; after falling in and out of favour with Elizabeth I, he eventually became the most important adviser to James I. Rather than view him through the prism of Jacobean court and political life, as the sparse previous critical attention has tended to do, this detailed reassessment places him in the context of scholarship on Renaissance humanism and its varied interactions with the different styles of argument and persuasion that Howard used, often to no avail, to improve his position during troubled times. The book will be of huge importance to all those interested in the intellectual, religious or political history of early modern England.

Inhalt

Introduction
'The knowledge of good letters'. Birth, Education and First Years at Cambridge [1540-1566]
'Tanta assiduitas'. A Scholarly Life at Trinity Hall
'Beware of to much arte'. Between Cambridge and Audley End
'The skill of Philenus'. Teacher, Polemicist, Papist [1571-1578]
'In some sort communicat with daunger'. Survival, Success and Defeat [1578-1582]
'Somewhat closely carried'. Rhetoric and Astrology
'No termination but in vocativo'. Failure, Votary and Civilian
'An nobilitas perdatur per infamiam?' From Conspirator to Kingmaker
Conclusion
Appendices
Bibliography

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.11.2009
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Renaissance Literature
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Renaissance Literature
• Zusatzinfo: 1 b/w illus.
• Verlagsort: Woodbridge
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Courtier • Early Modern England • Elizabethan era • Henry Howard • Intellectual history • James I • Jonathan Woolfson • Renaissance humanism
• ISBN-13: 9781846157424 / 9781846157424