Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Courtly Pride and Christian Virtue:Thomas More's Utopia as a Guideto Speaking to Erasmus's "Half-Christian" "Turk" -- Humanism and Court Culture in the Education of Tudor Royal Children -- The Tudor Court: Dust and Desire -- "Where the Prince Lieth": Courtly Space and the Elizabethan Progresses -- Like a Queen: The Influence of the Elizabethan Court on the Structure of Female- Centered Households in the Early Modern Period -- Courtliness and Poetry in Sidney, Lyly, and Greene -- "Never shall my sad eies againe behold those pleasures": Aemilia Lanyer and Her Idealization of Tudor Court Life -- Persuading the Prince:Raleigh, Keymis, Chapman, andThe Second Voyage to Guiana -- Contributors -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.