Mantuan's Eclogues in the English Reformation
Largely because of Mantuan's attacks on corruption in the Papal Curia, his poems were used as corroborative texts during the Reformation by Luther and Protestant polemicists. Within the aggressively antipapal atmosphere of the English court during the 1530s, the institution of his eclogues by C...
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| Language: | English |
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Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc.
1994
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The sixteenth century journal
Year: 1994, Volume: 25, Issue: 3, Pages: 623-632 |
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| Summary: | Largely because of Mantuan's attacks on corruption in the Papal Curia, his poems were used as corroborative texts during the Reformation by Luther and Protestant polemicists. Within the aggressively antipapal atmosphere of the English court during the 1530s, the institution of his eclogues by Cranmer into the curricula of the newly refounded cathedral schools reflected this same motive. A trial of Thomas Freeman, headmaster of Saint Paul's, indicates how central a part of grammar school curricula Mantuan's collection had become to English Protestants by midcentury. The choice of his Adulescentia rather than his other works attacking the papacy exemplifies the assimilation and adaptation characteristic of early English Protestantism, the outspoken criticism of papal corruption in Mantuan's ninth eclogue being joined to the reasons that led earlier humanist schoolmasters to favor his eclogues. |
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| ISSN: | 2326-0726 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The sixteenth century journal
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/2542638 |