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As headmaster of two of London's well-known grammar schools, Mulcaster earned a national reputation in education.
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Machiavelli, antichrist, and the Reformation : prophetic typology in Reginald Pole's De unitate and Apologia ad carolum quintum / Peter S. Donaldson -- Family, faith, and Fortuna : the Châtillon brothers in the French Reformation / Nancy Lyman Roelker -- The image of Ferdinand II / Charles H. Carter -- William Laud and the outward face of religion / J. Sears McGee.
In the pages which follow, the authors attempt, eah in his own way, to present an image of Erasmus which combines elements of his significant role in the Renaissance of the North; and, above all, they seek to focus attention on the uniqueness of his contribution.
How an early modern understanding of place and movement are embedded in a performative theory of literature How is a garden like a poem? Early modern writers frequently compared the two, and as Jim Ellis shows, the metaphor gained strength with the arrival of a spectacular new art form—the Renaissance pleasure garden—which immersed visitors in a political allegory to be read by their bodies’ movements. The Poem, the Garden, and the World traces the Renaissance-era relationship of place and movement from garden to poetry to a confluence of both. Starting with the Earl of Leicester’s pleasure garden for Queen Elizabeth’s 1575 progress visit, Ellis explores the political function of t...