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Thomas Cranmer's register
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- Book Synopsis
- Thomas Cranmer's Register records turbulent change in England and Wales between 1533 and 1553. The crown abolished Roman jurisdiction, and the first steps towards the creation of a Protestant state were made. As archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer was a seminal figure in these developments, and his register is a key Reformation document.The physical register at Lambeth Palace has been out of reach for many scholars. Paul Ayris's extraordinary edition makes more of the text available to readers than ever before, with transcriptions and editorial introductions that illuminate the sometimes cryptic sixteenth-century text. Here, the appointment of Cranmer to Canterbury (at the hands of the papacy) in 1533 is recorded. Commissions and letters reveal how the crown assumed authority over the church and, through Thomas Cromwell as vicegerent in spirituals, supplanted the role of the archbishop as the principal minister of the king's spiritual jurisdiction. The work suggests a new explanation for the inclusion/exclusion of the stipulation in the 1536 royal Injunctions concerning the Bible in English. Moreover, unpublished records for the diocese of Norwich in 1550 reveal that the order for removing altars in English churches emanated from Thomas Cranmer not, as is usually thought, from the bishop of London, Nicholas Ridley. This edition will be a touchstone reference for global scholars of the Tudor period.Published in association with the Canterbury and York Society
- About The Author
- Paul Ayris (1957-2025) was Pro-Vice-Provost, Libraries, Culture, Collections and Open Science, at UCL. He previously published on aspects of Cranmer's register and its significance. He was a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, formerly President of LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries) and chaired the Open Science Ambassadors group in LERU (League of European Research Universities).Diarmaid MacCulloch is Emeritus Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford, and Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford. He has written extensively on the sixteenth century and beyond it. His History of Christianity: the first three thousand years and the BBC TV series based on it first appeared in 2009; the book won the Cundill Prize, the world's largest prize for history, in 2010. His three-part TV series for BBC2, How God made the English, aired in March 2012, and his BBC2 series, Sex and the Church, aired in early 2015. He has written Silence: a Christian History *(2013) and his collected essays on the Reformation appeared as *All Things New: Writings on the Reformation in 2016. His Thomas Cromwell: a Life appeared in 2018. He was knighted in the UK New Year's Honours List of 2012.
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- ISBN
- 9781806550104
- Format
- Multiple-item retail product, shrinkwrapped
- Publisher
- UCL Press, (19 January 2026)
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 234 mm
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