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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"English Church"”.
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Thomas Cranmer's Register: a record of archiepiscopal administration in diocese and province
… skill and insight to place the authority of the English episcopate upon new foundations. He himself was able to supplement the jurisdiction of the archbishop as metropolitan. Thomets Cranmer's Commonplace Books give evidence of his efforts to elaborate a doctrine of Christian Obedience. The …
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Two Orchestral Anthems by John Alcock (1715-1806): A critical edition with commentary
… attractive works and is a significant figure in English church music of the eighteenth century. His writings about his life in both parish church and cathedral music are also invaluable to research of the period. The two orchestral anthems, here appearing in critical editions, display some of the …
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John Cotton's Middle Way
… John Cotton. Some argue that he supported a church structure based on suppression of lay rights in favor of the clergy, strengthening of synods above the authority of congregations, and increasingly narrow church membership requirements. By contrast, others arrive at virtually opposite …
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Apostolic discourse and Christian identity in Anglo-Saxon literature
… of the Anglo-Saxon missionary saints, the Old English poetry of Cynewulf, and the anonymous poem Andreas. This study demonstrates how Anglo-Saxon authors appropriated the experiences and the authority of the apostles to fashion Christian identities for members of the emerging English church in …
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He descended into hell: an English Reformation controversy
… in their polemical debates against the Roman church. But the English church made the claim that their purpose was only to teach that which was taught by the fathers of the first five or six centuries. This thesis examines whether this was true concerning one of the most disputed doctrines of …
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Reforming nationhood : England in the literature of the Tudor imperial age, 1509-1553
… and for our wider appreciation of the origins of English national identity. It differentiates the Habsburg imperial idea from the Tudor ideology of empire inherited by Henry VIII upon his accession in 1509. It then distinguishes both these imperial ideologies from Henry's pretensions, as enshrined …
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'There was never man handled as I am' : the legacy and significance of Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, 1558-1660
… the pre-eminent role of Thomas Cranmer in the English Reformation. However, his significance as an enduring religious influence in the century following his martyrdom has not received close investigation. This thesis traces the legacy and significance of Cranmer from the Elizabethan Settlement …
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Daniel Featley and Calvinist Conformity in Early Stuart England
This thesis examines the life and works of the English Calvinist clergyman Daniel Featley (1582-1645) through the lens of various printed and manuscript sources, especially his manuscript notebooks in Oxford. It links his story and thought to the broader themes of early Stuart religious, political, …
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"For Reformation and Uniformity": George Gillespie (1613-1648) and the Scottish Covenanter Revolution
… works attacking the ceremonies of the Church of England, defending Presbyterianism, opposing religious toleration, and combating Erastianism. He is best remembered as one of the Scottish Commissioners to the Westminster Assembly in London, which sought to reform the English Church and …
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The church courts in Restoration England, 1660–c. 1689
After a two-decade hiatus, the English church courts were revived by an act of Parliament on 27 July 1661, to resume their traditional task of correcting spiritual and moral misdemeanours. Soon thereafter, parishioners across England’s dioceses once more faced admonition, fines, excommunication, …
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How to remember thee?: problems of memorialization in english writing, 1558-1625
… elegies written by George Whetstone, Thomas Churchyard, John Phillips, Edmund Spenser, and Mary Sidney after Sir Philip Sidney’s death in 1586. These poets support military intervention on the continent against Roman Catholic States by using figural interpretation to represent Sidney as a …
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Protestant jurisdictionalism and the nature of puritanism, c. 1559–1642
… as God’s chosen rulers over the Christian church, in all external matters, with a corresponding duty to legislate and enforce God’s laws across both the civil and ecclesiastical spheres. In the English context, this ecclesiology was harboured in the Tudor royal ecclesiastical supremacy, …
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Anglo-Saxon Descent, Antiquarian Scholarship, and Germanic Englishness, c. 1560 - c. 1620
… sources from the ‘Anglo-Saxon’ period of English history that had predated the Norman Conquest of 1066. These manuscripts had formerly been held in abbeys and religious houses across the country. However, after Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries in the 1530s and early 1540s, this …
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Tractarian Male Friendships, Intimacies, and Identities in Nineteenth-Century England
… of Tractarian historians, such as R. W. Church and William Palmer, the story of the Oxford Movement has been about friends and friendships united against the perceived evils of rationalism and liberalism. The Tractarian project was to reassert the authority of the Church of England by …
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Between the household and the school : socialising the child in England, c.1400-1600
… thesis I develop a framework where I examine English vernacular literature in manuscripts and early printed books which guides readers towards understanding childhood and socialisation, and which explores the fashioning of child identity. I build on recent interest in tracing early print …
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Between the household and the school : socialising the child in England, c.1400-1600
… thesis I develop a framework where I examine English vernacular literature in manuscripts and early printed books which guides readers towards understanding childhood and socialisation, and which explores the fashioning of child identity. I build on recent interest in tracing early print …
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Competing Influences: Francia, Rome and the English in the Seventh Century
Francia and Rome loom large in English history in the seventh century. Both are visible in the evangelization of the English in the first half of the century, and their interaction is exemplified by Bishop Wilfrid’s career (c. 650–710), including his connections with Frankish bishops and his …
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The Priest's Wife in the Anglo-Norman Realm, 1050-1150
… regions shared an elite ruling class and the churches shared personnel. However, the different social and political contexts of the English and Norman churches ensured very different responses to the drive to impose clerical celibacy. The overwhelming majority of women associated with clergy …
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English printed drama in collection before Jonson and Shakespeare
… (1623) overwhelmingly dominate studies of the English drama collection. This critical focus has revealed much of what we know about the collection as a format for dramatic texts in early modern England, but it has also concealed aspects of the format’s history. Scholars regularly assume that …
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