Why Tudor Cambridge Needs Greek : Richard Croke (1489–1558), Orationes duae
(2022) An Anthology of Neo-Latin Literature in British Universities — ISBN: [978-1-3501-6026-2], p. 59-88, published
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- This chapter presents an excerpt from the Orationes duae by Richard Croke (delivered in 1519, published in 1520). This text is an example of the academic oration and is an important source for the early history of Greek teaching at English universities. An advertisement for the study of Greek at Cambridge, a thorough programme of Greek study, a defence of the value of Greek (and humanistic) learning more generally and an act of self-promotion for the speaker, these orations inscribe Greek learning in England, and in Cambridge and Oxford in particular, within an international context. Questions of religion, national interest and inter-institutional competition are at the forefront in these orations, thus rendering them important sources for the study of these three major engines of intellectual innovation in early modern Europe.
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Kachuck, A., & McDougall, B. C. F. (2022). Why Tudor Cambridge Needs Greek : Richard Croke (1489–1558), Orationes duae. In Gesine Manuwald and Lucy R. Nicholas (eds) (ed.), An Anthology of Neo-Latin Literature in British Universities (p. p. 59-88). Bloomsbury. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/224598