The Sir Thomas Elyot Page

( c. 1490 - 1546 )

Major Works
The Boke Named The Governour ( 1531 ). The first educational treatise in English. On Line. Edited by John M. Major, Teacher's College Press, 1969.
Of the Knowledge Whiche Maketh a Wise Man ( 1533 ). Edited by Edwin Johnston Howard. Miami U., 1946. Reprint by Richard S. Barnes, 1970.
The Education of Children, Translated Out of Plutarch ( 1535 ).
Dictionary ( 1538; 1545 ). The first Latin-English dictionary.
The Castel of Helth ( 1539; 1541 ).
The Defence of Good Women ( 1540 ).

About Elyot
John M. Major, Sir Thomas Elyot and Renaissance Humanism. Nebraska, 1964.

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