The Cambridge Connection In Tudor England Humanism Reform Rhetoric Politics John F Mcdiarmid by John F. Mcdiarmid, Susan Wabuda 9789004382244, 9004382240 instant download after payment.

This book highlights the 'Athenian tribe', whose members, like John Cheke and William Cecil, were essential to the shaping of mid-Tudor political life, the English Church, and intellectual culture. They left a lasting imprint on early modern England.
The ‘Cambridge Connection’ refers to a group of influential scholars in sixteenth-​century England who played a central role in the establishment of its national Church and in the ‘triumph of the English language’, especially in the reigns of King Edward vi and Queen Elizabeth i.1 Initially described by Winthrop S. Hudson in his 1980 study The Cambridge Connection and the Elizabethan Settlement of 1559,2 they were essential to the shaping of mid-​ Tudor political life and to the intellectual culture of their age.