Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13574175.2023.2251518
Mark Rankin
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13574175.2023.2250823
Duncan Hardy
ABSTRACT Many free imperial cities played a central role in the early events of the German Reformation(s). These same cities were among the constituencies that had shaped – and been shaped by – the processes dubbed “imperial reform” (Reichsreform) by historians: discussions about and implementations of governance at the highest level in the Holy Roman Empire. This article explores the relationship between the imperial cities and imperial reform in the fifteenth century and in the early phase of the Reformation (1517–32). It argues that “imperial reform” – a historiographical construct – is best conceived as a shared discourse of peace (friden), justice (recht), and order (ordnung) associated with the new institutions created in the Empire in the crucial decades around 1500. Imperial reform remained central to the urban governments’ political agendas even as evangelical teachings spread in the years after 1517, legitimizing them and offering leverage at a time of growing tension.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13574175.2023.2255596
W. R. Streitberger, Edmund d. Tilney
ABSTRACT Between 1581 and 1610 Master of the Revels Edmund Tilney (c 1536–1610) was authorized to license plays. The only evidence we have of his actual practice is the Book of Sir Thomas More, several pages which are thought to be in the hand of William Shakespeare. This essay is concerned with Tilney’s suppression of the twenty-four lines in which More and Rochester refuse to sign articles sent to them by the king. Tilney’s censorship can be better understood from the views he expresses in the confidential intelligence manual he wrote for Elizabeth I. It includes a humanist history of the papacy that reveals his understanding of the Reformation. While Tilney was a sophisticated enough courtier to allow a play on the controversial subject of More’s career, he would not allow a passage that might be interpreted to undermine the constitutional right to overrule papal objections that Henry VIII claimed in the 1533 Act in Restraint of Appeals. As Tilney’s research showed, that right derived from Constantine the Great, the half-British King of Britain who as emperor legitimized Christianity and became patron of the primitive Church and the Bishop of Rome.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13574175.2023.2247428
Joel Dodson
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13574175.2023.2251524
Richard Rex
ABSTRACT The thesis that Thomas More (1478–1535) plotted and financed the capture of William Tyndale (c.1494–1536) in Antwerp in May 1535 despite being himself a prisoner in the Tower of London at the time was first advanced in a biography of Tyndale published by Brian Moynahan in 2002. That thesis came to immeasurably wider attention through being mentioned in each volume of the Wolf Hall trilogy by the late Dame Hilary Mantel (1952–2022). The wide circulation thus given to that claim, even though in a work of fiction rather than of scholarship, motivates this attempt to demonstrate that it is without any foundation. The consequent close scrutiny of the evidence about this episode indicates that the taking of Tyndale was planned by its protagonist, Henry Phillips, on his own initiative, and not, as has often been suggested, at the instigation of English ecclesiastical authorities.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13574175.2023.2247429
Harriet Lyon
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13574175.2023.2252178
Steven W. May
ABSTRACT Who wrote “A Meditation of a penitent sinner” that was appended to Anne Lock’s translation of Sermons of John Calvin Vpon the Songe that Ezechias made (1560)? Lock (c.1533–90) introduced this poem with the disclaimer that it was “delivered me by my frend with whom I knew I might be so bolde to use and publishe it as pleased me.” Although Lock was not known to have written English verse, professional scholarship attributed the “Meditation” to her with near unanimity until 2017, when Steven W. May argued that Thomas Norton (1532–84) was its likely author. In response, Jake Arthur challenged May’s thesis in 2022, arguing in particular that May’s linguistic methodology was flawed. This article refutes Arthur’s rejoinder by clarifying how the stylistic evidence fits into the larger argument and summarizing the evidence that Norton is beyond reasonable doubt the friend who gave Lock the “Meditation” for her 1560 translation of Calvin.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13574175.2023.2257742
Alice J. Soulieux-Evans
{"title":"England’s second Reformation: The battle for the Church of England, 1625–1662","authors":"Alice J. Soulieux-Evans","doi":"10.1080/13574175.2023.2257742","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13574175.2023.2257742","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41682,"journal":{"name":"Reformation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139363856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13574175.2023.2187938
M. Kelly
new study of the end of the vowed religious life in England
一项关于英国宗教生活终结的新研究
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13574175.2023.2187932
A. Marotti
ABSTRACT The socioreligious context of Shakespeare’s plays was shaped by the international contest for authority precipitated, first, by popes’ exercise of their supposed deposing power in the 1570 and 1580 excommunications of Queen Elizabeth, and, second, by Protestant and Catholic theories of political resistance. As a dramatist who repeatedly included regicide in his plays, Shakespeare was aware of the contemporary political and religious relevance of king-killing. Avoiding the familiar forms of overt Protestant propagandizing, he staged a confrontation between English monarchical and papal power in King John, but in other plays he explored regicide and tyrannicide against the background of resistance theories that implied the need for a monarch to maintain a sufficient degree of popular support to claim legitimacy. At a time of nation-state formation, Shakespeare celebrated English nationalism, but turned a critical eye on the behavior of particular rulers, leaving his audiences free to interpret his plays’ religiopolitical complexities.
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