...Matthew W. Irvin Hugh Latimer's 1548 “Sermon of the Plough” is well-known as an example of early English evangelical rhetoric. However, the sermon has often been considered as an effect of, rather than a participant in, evangelical theology. This article reads Latimer's rhetoric, especially his...

... of the key religious motives informing the period s language controversies. Keywords: cuttlefish, Thomas Wilson, inkhorn words, Reformation rhetoric, Renaissance rhetoric, satire, theology, bestiary, wet eels, Protestantism I n The Arte of Rhetorique (1553), Thomas Wilson lampoons orators who rely too...