wrote Toxophilus or the Schole or Partitions of Shooting to defend archery against claims that it was a sport unbefitting a scholar. Toxophilus is written...
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Roger Ascham (section Toxophilus)
pension of £10 a year. Toxophilus was the first book on archery in English. The work is a Platonic dialogue between Toxophilus and Philologus. Editions...
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"Notes" Jowett, Book II, 369c William Horman, Vulgaria Roger Ascham, Toxophilus Richard Franck, Northern Memoirs Pleij, Herman (2001). Dreaming of Cockaigne:...
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protective archery equipment, possibly due to confusion with vambraces. Toxophilus - the School of Shooting. by Roger Ascham. Read Books 2006. ISBN 1-84664-369-4...
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early 16th century. The first book in English about longbow archery was Toxophilus by Roger Ascham, first published in London in 1545 and dedicated to King...
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"toxophilite", meaning "a lover or devotee of archery, an archer" derives from Toxophilus by Roger Ascham —"imaginary proper name invented by Ascham, and hence...
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does the name appear in his source texts. In print, Roger Ascham in his Toxophilus (1545) refers to "ye noble black prince Edward beside Poeters"; while...
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culture of the yeoman class and royal mandates. It draws inspiration and often quotes from the 16th century Toxophilus written by Roger Ascham. v t e v t e...
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State of Germany ...". In Wright, William Aldis (ed.). English Works: Toxophilus; Report and Discourse of the Affaires and State of Germany; The Scholemaster...
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have so much detailed information about these things." Roger Ascham – Toxophilus Girolamo Cardano – Ars Magna Bernard Etxepare – Linguae Vasconum Primitiae...
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literature – Cosmographia (Münster), Antwerp songbook 1545 in literature – Toxophilus (Roger Ascham), Ars Magna (Gerolamo Cardano), A Proper Newe Booke of Cokerye...
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It was the first important book about archery written in English since Toxophilus, which was written in 1545. It was said that Witchery "...has as much...
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was a practical treatise following a trend begun by the archery book Toxophilus of Roger Ascham, of Digby's own college. According to Eugene D. Hill,...
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– Assertio inclytissimi Arturii regis Britanniae 1545 Roger Ascham – Toxophilus Bernard Etxepare – Linguae Vasconum Primitiae Sir John Fortescue – De...
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volumes of the series were Stephen Gosson's School of Abuse, Roger Ascham's Toxophilus, Tottel's Miscellany, and Robert Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia. It was followed...
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Cantabrigienses, I.i, p. 328. Alumni Cantabrigienses, I.ii, p. 22. R. Ascham, 'Toxophilus, the Schole of Shootinge contayned in two bookes' (orig. In aedibus Edouardi...
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Bell & Co/Macmillan & Co, Cambridge 1858), pp. 166-170. R. Ascham, 'Toxophilus, the Schole of Shootinge contayned in two bookes' (orig. In aedibus Edouardi...
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History of Wales by Warrington in 1788) and sermons. A new edition of Toxophilus printed by R.Marsh of Wrexham in 1788. It was edited with an introduction...
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Master of the Revels to be head of an independent office. Roger Ascham's Toxophilus, the first book on archery written in English, is published. Thomas Phaer's...
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