This edited volume offers a fresh and far-reaching survey of the life, career, intellectual networks, output and times of Roger Ascham (1515/16-1568).

Roger Ascham is often classified as 'a great mid-Tudor humanist' and he is perhaps best known for his role as tutor to Elizabeth I. His most famous works, The S

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