Reading and Writing during the Dissolution
Reading and Writing during the Dissolution

Author: Mary C. Erler

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-07-25

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1107435331

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In the years from 1534, when Henry VIII became head of the English church until the end of Mary Tudor's reign in 1558, the forms of English religious life evolved quickly and in complex ways. At the heart of these changes stood the country's professed religious men and women, whose institutional homes were closed between 1535 and 1540. Records of their reading and writing offer a remarkable view of these turbulent times. The responses to religious change of friars, anchorites, monks and nuns from London and the surrounding regions are shown through chronicles, devotional texts, and letters. What becomes apparent is the variety of positions that English religious men and women took up at the Reformation and the accommodations that they reached, both spiritual and practical. Of particular interest are the extraordinary letters of Margaret Vernon, head of four nunneries and personal friend of Thomas Cromwell.

Mid-Tudor Queenship and Memory
Mid-Tudor Queenship and Memory

Author: Valerie Schutte

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-09-19

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 3031356888

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This book explores (mis)representations of two female claimants to the Tudor throne, Lady Jane Grey and Mary I of England. It places Jane's attempted accession and Mary I's successful accession and reign in comparative perspective, and illustrates how the two are fundamentally linked to one another, and to broader questions of female kingship, precedent, and legitimacy. Through ten original essays, this book considers the nature and meaning of mid-Tudor queenship as it took shape, functioned, and was construed in the sixteenth century as well as its memory down to the twenty-first, in literary, musical, artistic, theatrical, and other cultural forms. Offering unique comparative insights into Jane and Mary, this volume is a key resource for researchers and students interested in the Tudor period, queenship, and historical memory.

Peter Martyr, a Reformer in Exile (1542-1562)
Peter Martyr, a Reformer in Exile (1542-1562)

Author: Marvin Anderson

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1975

Total Pages: 607

ISBN-13: 9004616756

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A first examination of the writings of the Reformed theologian Pietro Martyre Vermigli (1499-1562) in English, especially following his career in Northern Europe from 1542-1562. Appendix I (pp. 467-486): Register Epistolarum Vermigli, a list of 305 letters. pp. 540-585: Bibliography of sources and reference tools, including a full survey of manuscripts and printed editions.

Clerical Marriage and the English Reformation
Clerical Marriage and the English Reformation

Author: Helen L. Parish

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1351950983

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This volume is an examination of the debate over clerical marriage in Reformation polemic, and of its impact on the English clergy in the second half of the sixteenth century. Clerical celibacy was more than an abstract theological concept; it was a central image of mediaeval Catholicism which was shattered by the doctrinal iconoclasm of Protestant reformers. This study sets the debate over clerical marriage within the context of the key debates of the Reformation, offering insights into the nature of the reformers’ attempts to break with the Catholic past, and illustrating the relationship between English polemicists and their continental counterparts. The debate was not without practical consequences, and the author sets this study of polemical arguments alongside an analysis of the response of clergy in several English dioceses to the legalisation of clerical marriage in 1549. Conclusions are based upon the evidence of wills, visitation records, and the proceedings of the ecclesiastical courts. Despite the printed rhetoric, dogmatic certainties were often beyond the reach of the majority, and the author’s conclusions highlight the chasm which could exist between polemical ideal and practical reality during the turmoil of the Reformation.