Tabula Gratulatoria
Contents
Dedication
Preface
Life
One. Britanniae Decus: Life Records and Writings of Margaret More Roper
Texts
Two. Richard Hyrde’s Preface to A Devout Treatise upon the Pater Noster: [a2] Richarde Hyrde unto the moost studyous and vertuous yonge mayde Fraunces. S.[taverton] sendeth gretynge andwell to fare. [1524]
Three. Erasmus’s Precatio dominica: [a4] PRECATIO DOMINICA DIGE /sta in septem parteis, iuxta septem dies, per D. Erasmus Roterodamum.
Three. Margaret Roper’s A Devout Treatise upon the Pater Noster: Here after folowe the seuyn peticions of the Pater noster / translated out of Latyn in to Englysshe.
Four. Letter of Alice Alington to Margaret Roper
Five. Letter of Margaret Roperto Alice Alington
Criticism
Six. “A Young, Virtuous, and Well-Learned Gentlewoman”: Margaret More Roper in the Republic of Letters
Seven. Margaret Roper and Erasmus: The Relationship of Translator and Source
Eight. Erasmus and Margaret Roper on the Pater Noster: Patristic and Linguistic Sources
Nine. Dialogic Imagination in “The Letter to Alice Alington”
Ten. Virtual and Absolute: The Voices of the “Letter to Alington”
Eleven. Margaret More Roper’s Emendation of a Letter to St. Cyprianand Its Textual Afterlife
Twelve. Narrative and Tableau: Reading the Roper Miniatures within Holbein’s Tudor Portrait Career
Selected Bibliography
About the Contributors
Index