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Aysha Pollnitz was educated at the University of Sydney and Trinity College, Cambridge, where she was subsequently elected a Junior Research Fellow in Renaissance History. She has taught at Georgetown University, Washington DC and Grinnell College, Iowa. In 2016 she became an Assistant Professor of History at Rice University, Houston. Pollnitz has published essays on humanism, liberal education, Tudor and Stuart court culture, Shakespeare, and religious translation.
'This highly original and beautifully written book explores the liberal education received by royal children in Tudor and Stuart Britain ... It succeeds admirably in demonstrating the wider significance of princes' education by drawing connections between childhood learning and royal policies in later life during a stormy and eventful period. This rich and deeply textured book is certain to provoke interest and debate for many years to come.' Judges, 2016 Whitfield Prize, Royal Historical Society This highly original and beautifully written book explores the liberal education received by royal children in Tudor and Stuart Britain ... It succeeds admirably in demonstrating the wider significance of princes' education by drawing connections between childhood learning and royal policies in later life during a stormy and eventful period. This rich and deeply textured book is certain to provoke interest and debate for many years to come. Judges, 2016 Whitfield Prize, Royal Historical Society
