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Roger Ascham (/ˈæskəm/; c. 1515 – 30 December 1568) was an English scholar and didactic writer, famous for his prose style, his promotion of the vernacular...

(died 1548) was an English scholar. A dear friend, pupil and protégé of Roger Ascham's at St John's College, Cambridge, he became tutor to Princess Elizabeth...

archery by Roger Ascham, first published in London in 1545. Dedicated to King Henry VIII, it is the first book on archery written in English. Ascham was a...

archery, an archer" derives from Toxophilus by Roger Ascham —"imaginary proper name invented by Ascham, and hence title of his book (1545), intended to...

upbringing, which was typical of the time, as harsh. To the visiting scholar Roger Ascham, who found her reading Plato, she is said to have complained: For when...

Ascham School is an independent, non-denominational, day and boarding school for girls, located in Edgecliff, an Eastern Suburb of Sydney, New South Wales...

stories available on his website: "Roger Ascham and The King's Lost Girl" (2013), a prequel to The Tournament "Roger Ascham and the Dead Queen's Command" (2020)...

necessitas ("The mother of invention is necessity") in 1519;[page needed] Roger Ascham said "Necessitie, the inventour of all goodnesse" in 1545.[page needed]...

the Bible. Another early proponent of literature in the vernacular was Roger Ascham, who was tutor to Princess Elizabeth during her teenage years, and is...

diplomat Anthony Ascham (astrologer) Roger Ascham This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Ascham. If an internal link led you here...

brother of Roger Ascham (cf. Grant's Vita Axchami in Ascham's Works, ed. Giles, iv. 307). 'A Little Herbal,' by Ant. Askam, 1550. 'Anthonie Ascham his Treatise...

acted at St. John's in the new manner. After Poynet as Greek Reader came Roger Ascham, Cheke's student, who read Isocrates, at first disputing but afterwards...

Parr John Leland – Assertio inclytissimi Arturii regis Britanniae 1545 Roger Ascham – Toxophilus Bernard Etxepare – Linguae Vasconum Primitiae Sir John Fortescue...

Elizabeth received her education under her brother Edward's tutor, Roger Ascham, a sympathetic teacher who believed that learning should be engaging...

The Unfortunate Traveller, 286. Ascham, The Scholemaster, 79. Nashe, The Unfortunate Traveller, 307. Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster, ed. John E. B....

daughter of Sir Clement Harleston. She was married to the humanist writer Roger Ascham, who was tutor to the young Elizabeth I. Margaret was born in South Ockendon...

century. The first book in English about longbow archery was Toxophilus by Roger Ascham, first published in London in 1545 and dedicated to King Henry VIII....

to confusion with vambraces. Toxophilus - the School of Shooting. by Roger Ascham. Read Books 2006. ISBN 1-84664-369-4 ISBN 978-1846643699 Harry Fokkens...

in neither case does the name appear in his source texts. In print, Roger Ascham in his Toxophilus (1545) refers to "ye noble black prince Edward beside...

Among the siblings' tutors figured John Dee, Thomas Wilson, and Roger Ascham. Roger Ascham believed that Robert Dudley possessed a rare talent for languages...