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Printing, power, and piety : appeals to the public during the early years of the English Reformation /

This book explores the important implications of printed vernacular appeals to a nascent public by the reformer William Tyndale, by religious conservatives such as Thomas More, and by Henry VIII's regime in the volatile early years of the English Reformation.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pardue, Brad C. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.
Colección:Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; v. 162.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments; Chapter One William Tyndale and Early Modern Appeals to the Public during the English Reformation; I. New Appeals to the Public between 1525 and 1535; II. Publics, Publicness, and the Public Sphere; III. The Role of Printing and Vernacularization; 1. Printing; 2. Vernacularization; IV. The Legacy of Tyndale's Translations and Theology; V. The Structure of the Following Study; Chapter Two "[T]he very brest of all this batayle ... the questyon whyche is the chyrche": The Conflicting Ecclesiologies of William Tyndale and Thomas More.
  • I. Spirituality and Temporality: Two Estates or Two Regiments?II. More and Tyndale on the Church, Scripture, and Religious Authority; 1. Thomas More's Understanding of the Church; 2. William Tyndale's Understanding of the Church; 3. The "pure worde of god" or "vnwritten verities": Scripture and Tradition As Competing Sources of Authority; III. Conclusion: Tensions in More's and Tyndale's Positions and the Implications of Their Ecclesiologies.
  • Chapter Three Implications of Media: How Vernacularization and Printing Shaped the Content and Reception of the Writings of William Tyndale and Thomas MoreI. The Battle of Ideas in the Theater of Material Production; II. Readers of Reformist Literature; III. Printing and Circulation; IV. Additional Implications of the Medium of Print; V. Conclusion; Chapter Four Thomas More and Henry VIII at Cross-Purposes; I. The English Situation in Early 1532: More's Confutation Preface; II. Safe Conducts for English Reformers; 1. Simon Fish and the Supplication of the Beggars.
  • 2. Stephen Vaughn's Mission to the Reformers in 1531III. Conclusion: More's Position Becomes Untenable; Chapter Five William Tyndale, Henry VIII, and the Royal Supremacy; I. Henry VIII: "Defender of the Faith" and "Supreme Head of the Church of England"; II. Tyndale on the King and the Two Regiments; 1. Kings in the Temporal Regiment; 2. Kings in the Spiritual Regiment; III. The Royal Supremacy and Henrician Propaganda in the 1530s; Conclusion: Tyndale's Enduring Legacy; I. The Great Bible Woodcut of 1539; II. Cranmer's Great Bible Preface.
  • III. The Religious and Political Legacies of Tyndale's ThoughtAfterword; Bibliography; Index.