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Thomas Cranmer: A Life.
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(Tue Jun 4 14:06:26 2024) | AbebooksDE | Fundus-Online GbR Borkert Schwarz Zerfaß | ISBN10: 0300074484, ISBN13: 9780300074482, [publisher: Yale University Press] Softcover XII, 692 p.: Ill. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Einband berieben und minimal bestoßen, sonst sehr guter Zustand / binding rubbed and minimally scuffed, otherwise very good condition. - Thomas Cranmer was the architect of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer. He was the Archbishop who guided England through the early Reformation, and Henry VIII through the minefields of divorce. In this monumental, definitive and prize-winning biography, Diarmaid MacCulloch transforms our view of Cranmer and of the English Reformation as a whole. In gripping detail, the book reconstructs the trajectories of Cranmers career and the crises which he negotiated, from his compromising association with three of the Kings divorces, the plot by religious conservatives to oust him, his role in the attempt to establish Lady Jane Grey as Queen, to the vengeance of Mary Tudor. In gaol after Marys accession, Cranmer nearly succumbed to recant his lifes achievements, but was able to turn the very day of his death at the stake into a dramatic demonstration of his Protestant faith. From this vivid and fascinating account Cranmer emerges a more real, intriguing, and sharply- focused figure than in any previous study. A hesitant hero with a tangled life story, his imperishable legacy is his contribution to the shape and structure of English speech and, through his Prayer Book, to the moulding of an international language. / CONTENTS List of illustrations List if abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Academic Prelude i Simple esquire: 1489-1503 2 Cambridge years: 150329 Part II: The Kings Good Servant 3 Campaign to end a marriage: 152733 4 The reign of Queen Anne: 15336 5 From Anne Boleyn to Thomas Cromwell: 15357 6 A Reformed Church? 1535-9 7 Salvaging the cause: 1539-42 8 A problem of survival: 15426 Part III: The Years of Opportunity 9 Welcoming King Josiah: 15469 10 1549: Commotion in Church and commonwealth 11 Building a Protestant Church: 155052 Part IV: Finding Immortality 12 Paradise betrayed: 15523 13 Condemned: 1553-6 14 Aftermath and retrospect Appendix I: Was Stephen Nevinson Cranmers anonymous biographer? Appendix II: The date of Henry VIIIs marriage to Anne Boleyn Appendix III: University connections among close relatives, servants and households of Thomas Cranmer and Stephen Gardiner Bibliography Index. ISBN 9780300074482 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 914
[Berlin, Germany] [Publication Year: 1996]
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