The Honorable Burden of Public Office : English Humanists and Tudor Politics in the Sixteenth Century

"The Honorable Burden of Public Office" traces the rise of civic humanism in England through the lives and careers of six prominent Elizabethans - John Cheke, Walter Haddon, Thomas Wilson, Thomas Smith, Nicholas Bacon, and William Cecil. It not only recreates the network of intricate relationships and activities that reshaped Elizabethan political culture, it explores the connections between Engli...