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Ascham, Roger
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Ascham, Roger (1515/16–68), educated at St John's College, Cambridge, became college reader in Greek in 1540. In 1545 he published
Toxophilus, a treatise on archery, set in the form of a dialogue between Toxophilus (lover of shooting) and Philologus (lover of books); it provided the model for many later treatises in dialogue form, including
The Compleat Angler. In 1554 he became Latin secretary to Queen Mary, and was renewed in this office under Elizabeth.
The Scholemaster was published posthumously in 1570. Its three most distinctive features are: Ascham's dislike of corporal punishment; the Ciceronian technique of double translation, from Latin into English and back again; and his attitude to Italy. It was an immediate influence on Sidney's
Defence of Poetry, as well as an important landmark in later educational theory. Ascham's English works are notable for their relaxed, personal style and for considerable economy of expression. Dr
Johnson wrote an anonymous
Life of Ascham to accompany James Bennet's edition of 1761.
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Protestant theology and apocalyptic rhetoric in Roger Ascham's The Schoolmaster.(Critical essay)(Report)
Magazine article from: Journal of the History of Ideas; 10/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; Samuel Johnson described Roger Ascham's The Schoolmaster (1570) as...to hyperbole, Johnson recognized in Ascham the same excellence that Elizabeth did. Upon taking the throne, she invited Ascham to become her informal tutor, and...
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ECHO MEMORIES - Kindly teacher who spared the rod to spoil his royal charges
Newspaper article from: The Northern Echo; 12/13/2006; ; 700+ words
; WHEN Roger Ascham died in 1568, Queen Elizabeth...queens, princes and princesses.Ascham, pronounced Askam, was born...Thirsk. The third son of John Ascham, steward to Lord Scrope of Bolton, Roger was educated not at a school...
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NSW: Six girls, teacher injured after ceiling collapses
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 12/2/2005; 620 words
; ...they too are structurally sound. "Ascham will undertake whatever actions are recommended by the engineer." Ascham, a non-denominational school founded...school for girls, was named after Roger Ascham, tutor to Queen Elizabeth I. About...
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Poisoned figs and Italian sallets: nation, diet, and the early modern English traveler.
Magazine article from: Annali d'Italianistica; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...contemporary and fellow courtier Roger Ascham had famously warned of in The Scholemaster (1570). The young traveler, Ascham feared, shall not always, in his...Italian. (64-65) According to Ascham, the young English traveler's...
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Echo memories - After 300 years, the captain is bringing the Silver Arrow home
Newspaper article from: The Northern Echo; 5/14/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...a couple of stories, we may begin with Roger Ascham from Kirby Wiske, 15 miles from Scorton. In 1548, Ascham, who attended Cambridge University from...for his daughter, Princess Elizabeth. Ascham became a great favourite of the future...
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Johann Sturm on Education: The Reformation and Humanist Learning.
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 3/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...touched people from throne rooms in capitals (e.g., Roger Ascham and Queen Elizabeth) to simple schools with great expectations...Princes (1551); Concerning the English Nobility, for Roger Ascham (1551); The Lauingen School (1565); Classical...
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Scenes of Instruction in Renaissance Romance.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 6/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...frozen in maxims and sententiae (the kind of experience Roger Ascham wished to substitute for hedonistic wanderings abroad...he suggests, interrogates but cannot quite escape Ascham's certainties. In the first Euphues, its protagonist...
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"A wanton trade of living"? Rhetoric, Effeminacy, and the Early Modern Courtier.
Magazine article from: Criticism; 3/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...we are not?(5) Notably, the Protestant moralist Roger Ascham condemns the purveyors of courtly love, the translators...than three years' travel abroad spent in Italy." Ascham even recommends Hoby's translation, while one avid...
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"The Ende Therfore of a Perfect Courtier" in Baldassare Castiglione's The Courtier.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Philological Quarterly; 6/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...reasons and used to support divergent positions.(3) Roger Ascham in The Schoolmaster (1570) would rather the English youth read The Courtier than travel to Italy. Ascham has supported the traditional ideals of learning, virtue...
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Close Readers: Humanism and Sodomy in Early Modern England.(Review)
Magazine article from: Shakespeare Studies; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...John Harington" (father of the more famous translator), within a reading of Roger Ascham studying Cicero in bed with a student (140). While the survey of Ascham's life and career is highly relevant to an argument on the potential homoeroticism...
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Roger Ascham
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Roger Ascham , 1515-68, English humanist and scholar...1761), included in many editions of Ascham's collected works, is a classic. Bibliography: See W. F. Phelps, Roger Ascham and John Sturm (1879); study by L...
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Ascham, Roger (ca. 1515–1568)
Book article from: The Renaissance
Ascham, Roger (ca. 1515 – 1568) A noted scholar of England, Ascham was born in Yorkshire and entered Cambridge...constant study, writing, and lecturing, Ascham diligently applied himself as well to the...
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Ascham, Roger
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Ascham, Roger (1515/16–68). Protestant...whom he supported on Greek pronunciation. Ascham himself taught Latin, Greek, and logic...Princess Elizabeth and the future Edward VI, Ascham went on embassy to Germany in 1550, and...
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Elizabeth I
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...ill health but pursued her studies under her tutor, Roger Ascham. In 1553, following the death of Edward VI, her sister...residence at Hatfield, where she resumed her studies with Ascham. On Nov. 17, 1558, Mary died, and Elizabeth succeeded...
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Sports
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...archery, which sustained its popularity even as the bow and arrow became increasingly archaic in war. According to Roger Ascham (1515 – 1568) in 1546, "How honest a pastime for the mind [is archery]; how wholesome an exercise for...
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