The religious education of the gentry and middling sort of provincial England c.1540 - c. 1760

考虑到现代早期高度的宗教紧张局势，令人惊讶的是，对那些越来越多地进入英国文法学校和大学的绅士和中层阶级的儿子所给予的正式相关教育却很少受到关注。基督教人文主义在这一教育中扮演了什么角色？人文主义和新教的结合在多大程度上有助于解释为什么这些学生成年后会成为他们所做的那种新教徒--按照欧洲的标准，甚至按照英国国教的官方标准，他们都是独特的？

Given the heightened religios tension of the early modern period, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the formal relgious education given to those sons of the gentry and middling ranks who in increasing numbers attended English grammar schools and universities. What part did Christian humanism play in this education? How far does the combination of humanism and Protestantism help explain why these students became, as adults, the kind of Protestants they did - idiosyncratic by European standards, and even by official Anglican ones?