Humanism, Reading, and English Literature 1430-1530 Wakelin, Daniel. text bibliography Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History xx Oxford Scholarship Online 2007 monographic eng remote 1 online resource (272 pages) Humanism is usually thought to come to England in the early sixteenth century. In this book, however, Daniel Wakelin uncovers the almost unknown influences of humanism on English literature in the preceding hundred years. He considers the humanist influences on the reception of some of Chaucer's work and on the work of important authors such as Lydgate, Bokenham, Caxton, and Medwall, and in many anonymous or forgotten translations, political treatises, and documents from the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. At the heart of his study is a consideration of William Worcester, the fifteenth-century scholar. Wakelin can trace the influence of humanism much earlier than was thought, because he examines evidence in manuscripts and early printed books of the English study and imitation of antiquity, in polemical marginalia on classical works, and in the ways in which people copied and shared classical works and translations. He also examines how various English works were shaped by such reading habits and, in turn, how those English works reshaped the reading habits of the wider community.; Humanism thus, contrary to recent strictures against it, appears not as 'top-down' dissemination, but as a practical process of give-and-take between writers and readers. Humanism thus also prompts writers to imagine their potential readerships in ways which challenge them to re-imagine the political community and the intellectual freedom of the reader. Our views both of the fifteenth century and of humanist literature in English are transformed. List of Abbreviations and References; 1. Introduction: humanism as reading; Humanism in English literature during the fifteenth century; Other humanisms; Chaucer and Walton from medieval to Renaissance; The freedom of Chaucer's readers; 2. Duke Humfrey and other imaginary readers; Imagining Duke Humfrey; The princely reader in The Fall of Princes; The real reading of The Fall of Princes; Writing for the humanist in On Husbondrie; Imagining Duke Humfrey in On Husbondrie; The rewriting of Duke Humfrey's books; 3. Allusion, translation, and mistranslation; The muses of Osbern Bokenham. An exemplum for the Duke of YorkAlluding to Stilicho; The translation of power in Knyghthode and Bataile; Polemical and civil translation in Knyghthode and Bataile; 4. William Worcester and the commonweal of readers; A community of readers; Political reading: Cicero, John of Wales, and Chartier; The limits of exemplary reading; Sources of the commonweal in The Boke of Noblesse; The commonweal of readers and common knowledge; 5. Print and the reproduction of humanist readers; Reproducing humanism in print; Reproducible English in Anwykyll's Vulgaria; Cicero between grammar and philosophy. Reproducing the commonweal of readers in Caxton's prologuesCaxton's Cicero and its misreaders; 6. Eloquence, reason, and debate; Eloquent debate in the fifteenth century; Debating Buonaccorso's Declamatio; Reasons for rhetoric in Medwall's Fulgens and Lucres; The idea of reason in Medwall's Nature; The received ideas in Morton's household; 7. Some Tudor readers and their freedom; Prescribing humanism in the 1510s; Lupset and Elyot on reading and judgement; Elyot's unpredictable readers; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y. Includes bibliographical references and index. e-uk-en Humanism in literature English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism English literature Middle English, 1100-1500 History and criticism Humanism England History To 1500 Humanism England History 16th century Books and reading England History To 1500 Books and reading England History 16th century Humanisme dans la littérature Littérature anglaise 1100-1500 (Moyen anglais) Histoire et critique Humanisme Angleterre Histoire Jusqu'à 1500 Humanisme Angleterre Histoire 16e siècle Livres et lecture Angleterre Histoire 16e siècle Books and reading English literature Early modern English literature Middle English Humanism Humanism in literature England To 1700 fast PR418 820.9384 1281145408 9781281145406 9780199215881 019921588X http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://academic.oup.com/book/12542 IDEBK 121012 20260318191327.3 in00005708965 eng