Humanism in the Age of Henry VIII

First published in 1986, Humanism in the Age of Henry VIII is concerned with the flourishing humanism outside the religious and political spheres in many different fields and its intellectual and cultural impact on the schools and universities and in the realm of private study, paying particular attention to English contacts with European humanists. It is notorious that the renaissance reached England comparatively late but in the early sixteenth century the new learning was enthusiastically wel