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lems in the history of art.239 Strong's studies of the portraits of
Henry VIII and Elizabeth have added much needed precision
to this familiar theme.290 A mixture of the history of art, the
history of ideas, and some awareness of affairs enables Anglo
to bring out the significance of public display in the Tudor
period;291 he does, however, rather lose himself in the loving
description of lavish occasions. The same might be said of
Russell's particular study of the most lavish occasion of all, but
the book makes no pretence of trying for more.292 The
thoroughness and tedium of sixteenth-century preaching are
rather too faithfully reproduced in a study of the subject.293
Lehmberg paints a handsome portrait of a well-connected but
second-class humanist;294 a more conventional humanist,
Roger Ascham, receives a sufficient but suitably conventional
biography.295 For the least conventional of Tudor writers and
thinkers (and actors), Walter Raleigh, we now possess an
exhaustive and seemingly perceptive analysis of his work.296
Raleigh was only one of many who wrote about the new world,
as Blanke (and everybody else) knows: his study of English
writers' treatment of the subject collects a lot of examples but,
rather inevitably, cannot do much with them.297 Haller uses

289 Erna Auerbach, Tudor Artists. L: Athlone: 1954. Pp. xvi, 222;
52 plates. Rev: EHR 70, 1238*.

290 Roy Strong, Holbein and Henry VIII. L: Routledge: 1967. Pp. 75. -
Idem, Portraits of Queen Elizabeth. O: Clarendon: 1963. Pp, xv, 173.

281 Sydney Anglo, Spectacle, Pageantry, and Early Tudor Policy. O:
Clarendon: 1969. Pp. viii, 375.

292 Jocelyne G. Russell, The Field of Cloth of Gold. L: Routledge: 1969.
Pp. xiii, 248.

293 J. W. Blench, Preaching in England in the late z^th and i6th Centuries:
a study of English sermons, 1450-c. 1600. O: Blackwell: 1964. Pp.
xv, 378.

894 Stanford E. Lehmberg, Sir Thomas Elyot, Tudor Humanist. Austin:
U of Texas P: 1960. Pp. xv, 218. Rev: EHR 77, 556f.

295 Lawrence V. Ryan, Roger Ascham. Stanford UP: 1963. Pp. xii,
352. Rev: EHR 81, I58f,

296 [Pierre Lefranc, Sir Walter Ralegh Ecrivain: resume et les idees*
Quebec: Presses de 1'Universite" Laval: 1968. Pp. 733. Rev: EHR
85, i22ff.; AHR 75, ii6E]

297 Gustav H. Blanke, Amerika im englischen Schrifttum des 16. und 17.
Jahrhunderts. Bochum-Langendreer: Poppinghaus: 1962. Pp* 336.