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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Edward VI"”.
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A Man Moste Meete': A Nationwide Survey of Justices of the Peace in Mid-Tudor England, 1547-1582
… incorporates comparable data from the reigns of Edward VI, Mary I, and the Elizabeth I. Much of the analysis is quantitative in nature: chapters compare the appointments of justices of the peace during the reigns of Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I, and reveal that purges of the commissions of …
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Managing change in the English Reformation: the 1548 dissolution of the chantries and clergy of the Midland county surveys
… were responsible for its realisation and by individuals it affected directly, principally during the reign of Edward VI. It also considers how the methodology adopted contributes to the historiography of the period and where else it might be applied. Central to this study is the 1548 Dissolution …
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Book-Burning and the Banning of Books and Authors in England, 1526 - 1558: A Sixteenth-Century Fire-Library
… a meeting of England’s clergy, and by Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I, and their councils. I argue that England’s clergy, monarchs, and Privy Councils largely conceptualized heresy and sedition as an infection that threatened the health of the body politic by threatening their authority. …
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Teaching natural philosophy and mathematics at Oxford and Cambridge 1500-1570
… 1500, the Cambridge Master of Arts course was heavily slanted towards humanism. The old scholastic textbooks were rejected and replaced with modern authors. The purpose of natural philosophy was explicitly to illuminate the providential work of the creator, especially through natural history (a …
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“I wyl poure out the wordes of sorrowe”: politics in the Protestant and Catholic settings of Psalms 51 and 79 during the English Reformation
… in this dissemination. Beginning in the reign of Edward VI, the metrical psalters of the Anglican Church functioned as personal devotional instruments aimed at laity possessing limited musical and academic training. They provided, in their simple tunes and metricized texts, an easy means of …
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He descended into hell: an English Reformation controversy
… later claims that the fathers offered diverging views on this doctrine, we found a broad consensus with only minor variations (those of Tertullian and Clement of Alexandria). We then trace the doctrine from the patristic era to the eve of the reformation in England. The broad consensus of the …
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Tudor Conciliar Theorists
… Theory has a definite beginning.</p> <p>Henry VIII developed a flexible foreign policy to deal with continental suggestions to hold a general council of the church. The position which he took was that the English nation was not opposed to such a gathering, but on every occasion, matters of …
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Some Sources of Puritan Sabbatarianism
… work was prepared on the direct order of Henry VIII to clarify the principles set forth in the <em>Ten Articles</em>. Its importance, for the purpose of this study, is that in its exposition of the Ten Commandments is the first comprehensive statement of sabbath observance made under the reform …
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The Life and Writings of Thomas Becon, 1512-1567
… the bishopric of Chester in 1559, but also it provides an account of his extraordinary literary output. Between the early 1540s and the late 1560s, he composed or translated at least 56 works, which by the 1630s had been printed in 126 known editions. He was thus the most widely published …
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Flesh, Blood, and Puffed-Up Livers: The Theological, Political, and Social Contexts behind the 1550-1551 Written Eucharistic Debate between Thomas Cranmer and Stephen Gardiner
… Doctrine of the body and bloud of our saviour Christ. This theological work sparked a written debate between him and leading English traditionalist Stephen Gardiner in 1551. This dissertation outlines the differences between Cranmer’s newly asserted Reformed understanding of a Spiritual …