-
wrote Toxophilus or the
Schole or
Partitions of
Shooting to
defend archery against claims that it was a
sport unbe****ing a scholar.
Toxophilus is written...
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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...
- "Notes" Jowett, Book II, 369c
William Horman,
Vulgaria Roger Ascham,
Toxophilus Richard Franck,
Northern Memoirs Pleij,
Herman (2001).
Dreaming of ****aigne:...
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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...
- "toxophilite",
meaning "a
lover or
devotee of archery, an archer"
derives from
Toxophilus by
Roger Ascham —"imaginary
proper name
invented by Ascham, and hence...
-
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...
- 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...
-
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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literature –
Cosmographia (Münster),
Antwerp songbook 1545 in
literature –
Toxophilus (Roger Ascham), Ars
Magna (Gerolamo Cardano), A
Proper Newe
Booke of Cokerye...
- 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...
