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Turning Learned Authority Into Royal Supremacy: Elizabeth I'S Learned Persona And Her University Orations, Linda Shenk
Turning Learned Authority Into Royal Supremacy: Elizabeth I'S Learned Persona And Her University Orations, Linda Shenk
Linda Shenk
When the princess Elizabeth studied languages and rhetoric with William Grindal and Roger Ascham, she acquired more than practical skills. She earned the right to depict herself as a learned prince. Throughout the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the image of the educated monarch had gained particular political currency when humanist thinkers marketed the schoolroom as the necessary training ground for both king and counselor. Learned status served as proof that one was sufficiently wise and virtuous to hold political office.
Connecting Collections: The Letters Of John Bennett Shaw & Mary Cameron, Christy Allen
Connecting Collections: The Letters Of John Bennett Shaw & Mary Cameron, Christy Allen
Christy Allen
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Out Of It: Alienation And Coercion In D. H. Lawrence, Anne Fernald
Out Of It: Alienation And Coercion In D. H. Lawrence, Anne Fernald
Anne E Fernald
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Traversing Regions Of Terror: The Revolutionary Traveller As Gothic Reader, Jan Wellington
Traversing Regions Of Terror: The Revolutionary Traveller As Gothic Reader, Jan Wellington
Jan Wellington
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My Worldy Goods Do Thee Endow: Widowhood, Economic Conservatism, And The Mid- And Late Eighteenth-Century Novel, Karen Gevirtz
My Worldy Goods Do Thee Endow: Widowhood, Economic Conservatism, And The Mid- And Late Eighteenth-Century Novel, Karen Gevirtz
Karen Bloom Gevirtz
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Ladies Reading And Writing: Eighteenth-Century Women Writers And The Gendering Of Critical Discourse, Karen Gevirtz
Ladies Reading And Writing: Eighteenth-Century Women Writers And The Gendering Of Critical Discourse, Karen Gevirtz
Karen Bloom Gevirtz
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