TOXOPHILUS, A: The first booke of the schole of shoting

Ascham, Roger; Wright, William Aldis

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“…Various British monarchs (Edward IV, Richard III and Elizabeth I) decreed that yews should be preserved and/or planted to maintain a supply of suitable bow wood, although the best wood undoubtedly came from continental Europe. Roger Ascham (1545; reprinted in English 1868) wrote a treatise on the art of long-bow shooting and the need for practice.…”

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Taxus baccata L.

2003

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2003

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“…All this is in the abstract. But Greene brings us back to buildings by quoting Roger Ascham's praise of archery, Toxophilus (1545): 94 'in buyldynge a house, in making a shyppe, every part the more handsomely they be joined for profit and laste, the more cumlye they be fashioned to every mans sight and eye'. 95 Grimald's translation of Cicero can have a specular appeal that becomes apparent if decorum is substituted for 'comeliness': 'as the beautifulnesse of the bodie with proportionable making of the lymmes movveth a mannes yies: and deliteth them even with this, that all the parts with a certain grace agree together: right so this comlinesse, that shineth abrode in our life, winneth their liking'.…”

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Elizabethan Architecture: a View from Rhetoric

Gent¹

2014

Architectural History

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‘Remember the impression one gets from good architecture, that it expresses a thought.’ Wittgenstein's prompt to himself comes to mind when, in looking at Elizabethan buildings today accepted as ‘good architecture’, we ask, but what is the thought? The thinking behind prodigy houses and their lodges is not easy to discern; it has to be addressed indirectly because the Elizabethans left no statements about their architectural intentions. But it is useful to look at discourses adjacent to architecture. Of these, rhetoric, the ancient art of persuasion, is one of the most significant. ‘Rhetoric and architecture’, writes the historian of memory, Mary Carruthers, ‘have had a venerable dialogue’. This essay argues that such a dialogue exists in the minds of the Elizabethan patron-builders, at various levels of consciousness. New ideas meet with, and in turn are shaped by, an education in which rhetoric has played a significant role.

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“…Ascham, for all his worries about English, criticised those writers of the vernacular who failed to use accessible language ' but using straunge wordes as latin, french and Italian, do make all thinges darke and harde '. 41 Thomas Wilson in The art of rhetorique (1560) attacked ' ynkehorne termes ' and the failure of the pretentious to speak in their mother tongue, though he praised careful use of Latin terms. 42 The anonymous author of The complaynte of Scotlande adopted a similar view for his own tongue, when he sought to use the ' domestic scottis langage, maist intelligibil for the vulgare pepil '.…”

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Mediating the Word: Language and Dialects in the British and Irish Reformations

Heal

2005

J. Eccles. Hist.

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Translating the Scriptures into the vernacular was a primary concern of Protestant reformers. This led to worries about the precise language-form in which they should be made accessible to lay folk. This article situates such evangelical debates within contemporary understanding of the nature and role of native tongues. Tudor and Stuart governments sometimes saw English as a tool of political control; humanists questioned the ‘copiousness’ of the vernacular; the Celtic tongues were readily identified with barbarity; the status of the written word might be contaminated by the use of dialect. Translators and authors sought to address these concerns, with great success in England, Lowland Scotland and Wales, but much less effectively in Gaelic-speaking Ireland and Scotland.

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TOXOPHILUS, A: The first booke of the schole of shoting

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Taxus baccata L.

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Elizabethan Architecture: a View from Rhetoric

Mediating the Word: Language and Dialects in the British and Irish Reformations

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