Barclay, Alexander - Nicholas Orme (essay date 1989)
Nicholas Orme (essay date 1989)
SOURCE: Orme, Nicholas. “Alexander Barclay, Tudor Educationist.” In Education and Society In Medieval and Renaissance England, pp. 259-70. London: The Hambledon Press, 1989.
[In the following essay, Orme provides a brief synopsis of Barclay's biographical information as well as an analysis of Barclay's translation of The Ship of Fools, focusing on how the work reflects his background and writing style.]
Few sixteenth-century Englishmen had such a varied career as Alexander Barclay. By origin a Scot, he spent most of his life in England but also travelled widely on the continent. By career, he was in turn a secular priest in a collegiate church, a monk, a friar, and finally (after the dissolution of the friaries), a secular priest again, this time a parish clergyman. He is best known today as a poet and translator, but he was also an educationist. He held at least two teaching posts, one in a song...
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