J.P.Sommerville

 

IX: 1500-1650 HUMANISM, EDUCATION AND LITERACY

 

Q: What if anything was the educational revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?

 

Introduction

  1. K Charlton, Education in Renaissance England
  2. R. Weiss, Humanism in England During the Fifteenth Century (2nd edition, Oxford, 1957)
  3. HE Mason, Humanism and poetry in the early Tudor period
  4.  R.O'Day Education and society 1500-1800
  5. Jonathan Woolfson, ed. Reassessing Tudor Humanism.  Macmillan, 2002
  6. Charles G. Nauert, Humanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe (Cambridge, 1995)
  7. J. H. Hexter, 'The Education of the Aristocracy in the Renaissance', in Reappraisals in History (1961; an earlier version of the essay to be found in the Journal of Modern History (March 1950)).

The theory of civic humanism

  1. Aristotle, The Politics, [book I chapter 2]
  2. R Ascham, The schoolmaster
  3. B Castiglione, The Courtier
  4. T Elyot, The book named the governour
  5. Sir Thomas More, Utopia
  6. T Starkey, A dialogue between Lupset and Pole

 

Some discussions of Utopia and More

  1. J.H. Hexter, Introduction to the Yale edition of Utopia
  2. D Baker-Smith, Thomas More and Plato's voyage
  3. B Bradshaw 'More on Utopia' Historical Journal, 24 (1981)
  4. John C Olin ed., Interpreting More's Utopia, Fordham University Press 1990
  5. Frederic Seebohm, The Oxford Reformers. John Colet, Erasmus, and Thomas More (3rd edition, 1911; various reprints)

 

The instruments of education

-Schools and universities-

  1. L Stone, 'The educational revolution in England' Past and Present 28 (1964)
  2. D Cressy, 'Educational opportunity in Tudor and Stuart England' History of Education Quarterly 1(1976)
  3. MH Curtis, 'The alienated intellectuals of early Stuart England' Past and Present 23 (1962)
  4. MH Curtis, Oxford and Cambridge in transition
  5. Hugh Kearney, Scholars and Gentlemen: Universities and society in pre-industrial Britain 1500-1700  Cornell University Press 1970

-Literacy-

  1. David Cressy, 'Levels of illiteracy in England, 1530-1730' Historical Journal 20 (1977)
  2. David Cressy,  Literacy and the social order
  3. R Schofield 'The measurement of literacy in pre-industrial England' in J Goody, ed., Literacy in traditional societies
  4. Jonathan Barry. 'Literacy and literature in popular culture' inTim Harris ed., Popular culture in England, c.1500-1800, pp.69-94
     

  -Printing-

  1. David Loewenstein and Janel Mueller, eds. The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature.The New Cambridge History of English Literature Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002
  2. Lotte Hellinga, J. B. Trapp eds, The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain Volume 3, 1400–1557, CUP 1999
  3. John Barnard and D. F. McKenzie, eds., with Maureen Bell. The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. 4, 1557-1695.Cambridge University Press, 2002
  4. Adam Fox. Oral and Literate Culture in England 1500-1700 Oxford University Press, 2000.

The impact of educational change

  1. David Starkey 'The age of the household' in S Medcalf, ed, The later middle ages
  2.  JA Guy, The public career of Sir Thomas More
  3. M Dewar, Sir Thomas Smith: a Tudor intellectual in office
  4. C Read, Mr Secretary Cecil and Queen Elizabeth, [chapters 1-4]
  5. JE Neale, The Elizabethan house of commons, [chapter 15]
  6. JK McConica, English humanists and Reformation politics
  7. David Starkey 'The court: Castiglione's ideal and Tudor reality' Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 45 (1982)
  8. Kevin Sharpe and Steven N. Zwicker, eds. Reading, Society and Politics in Early Modern England. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
  9. B Worden 'Classical republicanism and the puritan revolution' in H Lloyd Jones, etc. ed., History and Imagination [for some long-term echoes]

Social mobility

  1. L Stone and A Everitt, 'Social mobility in England' Past and Present 33 (1966)

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