Two Unpublished Letters of Stephen Gardiner, August-September 1547 (Bodleian Library, Oxford, ms Eng. th. b. 2)
This note is a transcription of two hitherto unknown letters of Stephen Gardiner, bishop of Winchester (c.1497-1555), found in an early seventeenth-century Catholic commonplace book (Bodleian Library, Oxford, ms Eng. th. b. 2). Composed in late August or early September 1547 and addressed to several...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2016]
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The journal of ecclesiastical history
Year: 2016, Volume: 67, Issue: 4, Pages: 819-833 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Gardiner, Stephen 1482-1555
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/ England
/ Church reform
/ Geschichte 1547
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KBF British Isles KDE Anglican Church |
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| Summary: | This note is a transcription of two hitherto unknown letters of Stephen Gardiner, bishop of Winchester (c.1497-1555), found in an early seventeenth-century Catholic commonplace book (Bodleian Library, Oxford, ms Eng. th. b. 2). Composed in late August or early September 1547 and addressed to several of the royal Visitors of Winchester, the letters are a delaying tactic in Gardiner's ongoing resistance to the Edwardian Injunctions and the ‘Book of homilies’, an attempt to win time until the calling of the parliamentary session. The strongly theological content of the letters challenges traditional characterisations of Gardiner as primarily a legalist. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-7637 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of ecclesiastical history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0022046915003486 |