Thomas Phaer’s many printed works, including legal and medical texts, occasional verses, and classical translations, all insist upon – even assert – English as a language suitable for learned consciousness. As a physician, legal theorist, man of letters, and member of Parliament, Phaer represents a new English praxis of cultural and intellectual communication. His life and work are centered in the vicissitudes of Tudor polity, wherein he works to mobilize the vernacular and, in so doing, assert early modern English culture.

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

• Bowers, R., (2025), "Thomas Phaer and the Assertion of Tudor English", HSSCommons: (DOI: )

  Copy Citation | Export metadata as... | JSON | CSV | RO-Crate | BibTex | EndNote

1. Renaissance and Reformation

Original publication: Bowers, Rick. "Thomas Phaer and the Assertion of Tudor English." Renaissance and Reformation 33 (4): 2010. 25-40. DOI: 10.33137/rr.v33i4.11373. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Iter Canada / Renaissance and Reformation. Copyright © the author(s). Their work is distributed by Renaissance and Reformation under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For details, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/.