Acknowledgements Abbreviations and References Note on the Text List of Illustrations Notes on ContributorsIntroduction Ceri Law and Lucy R. Nicholas PART 1 Cultures of Scholarship 1 Roger Ascham and the Idea of a University in Sixteenth-Century England Ceri Law 2 Ascham & Co: St John's College, Cambridge, in the 1540s Richard Rex 3 Patristic Scholarship and Ascham's 'troubled years' Sam Kennerley 4 Ascham, Coins, Cambridge and Beyond Andrew Burnett PART 2 Broader Horizons: Connections and Influences 5 'The Scholer of the Best Master': Ascham and John Cheke John F. McDiarmid 6 Roger Ascham's Diplomatic Training and Mid-Tudor Diplomatic Careers Tracey A. Sowerby 7 The Special Relationship: Ascham and Sturm, England and Strasbourg Lucy R. Nicholas 8 Ascham and Queen Elizabeth's Religion Cyndia Susan Clegg PART 3 Language, Literature and Learning Reassessed 9 Ascham as Reader and Writer: Greek Sententiae and Neo-Latin Poetry J. S. Crown 10 The Bow and the Book: Ascham's Toxophilus Cathy Shrank 11 The Scholemaster's Memories Micha Lazarus 12 Ascham and Sturm on imitatio: Ethical and Ludic Attitudes to a Literary Technique Mike Pincombe Appendices Appendix 1 Roger Ascham: a Biographical Sketch Lucy R. Nicholas Appendix 2 Ascham's Bookshelf Micha Lazarus BibliographyIndex.