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Turning Learned Authority Into Royal Supremacy: Elizabeth I'S Learned Persona And Her University Orations, Linda Shenk Jan 2003

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 Dec 2002

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 Dec 2002

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 Dec 2002

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 Dec 2002

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 Dec 2002

Ladies Reading And Writing: Eighteenth-Century Women Writers And The Gendering Of Critical Discourse, Karen Gevirtz

Karen Bloom Gevirtz

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