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Hace 1 día · The Fall of Anne Boleyn – 20 May 1536 – Henry VIII gets betrothed to Jane Seymour. On 23rd May 1533, Henry VIII's Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, declared that the king's marriage to his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, had been annulled. It was a good job really, as Henry VIII had already taken a second wife, Anne Boleyn, and she ...
Hace 1 día · As part of my forthcoming event, The Men Behind the Throne: Tudor Statesmen, I'm running a zoom video discussion on Archbishop Thomas Cranmer this Sunday. I love doing these informal discussions as they're a great way to get to know each other before the event and an hour of Tudor talk with like-minded people is bliss. There are still places left on The Men Behind the Throne, which is a ...
Hace 3 días · From his finely crafted biography Thomas Cranmer: A Life and his many poignant essays that seem to run the entire gamut of Reformation history to his most formidable books Reformation: Europe’s House Divided, 1490–1700 and A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, MacCulloch’s writings cast a very large shadow ...
Hace 3 días · It was near this spot that in 1555 and 1556 the ‘Oxford Martyrs’, prominent Protestant bishops Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ridley, and Thomas Cranmer, were burnt ‘for their faith’. The cross-proximate to the site where workmen uncovered remnants of a stake, and some charred bone – once noticed, is hard to overlook. By the time Latimer ...
Hace 3 días · Thomas Cranmer (1489–1556), Henry VIII's Archbishop of Canterbury and editor and co-author of the first and second Books of Common Prayer. The 1549 Book of Common Prayer was criticized by Protestants both in England and abroad for being too susceptible to Roman Catholic re-interpretation.
Hace 3 días · Thomas Cranmer was the first Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury and principal compiler of the Book of Common Prayer. In the reign of Edward VI (1547–1553), the Church of England underwent an extensive theological reformation. Justification by faith was made a central teaching.
Hace 1 día · Gerlach Flicke, 1546: Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, general editor of the first Book of Common Prayer. As literature, it is often compared to the Authorized King James Bible and the works of William Shakespeare, which first appeared two centuries later. Indeed, Shakespeare borrowed Cranmer’s elegant, incisive phrases throughout his plays.
