Anne's father, Stephen Vaughan
, was a London merchant adventurer with strong ties to the court of Henry VIII
. He served as government agent in the Netherlands for Thomas Cromwell
. He was a...
Publishing
Anne Askew
These were printed at Wesel near Düsseldorf, Germany, together with various documents written by AA
in prison.
Beilin, Elaine V., and Anne Askew. “Introduction”. The Examinations of Anne Askew, Oxford University Press, 1996.
xxxiii
The title-page to each of Bale's two volumes has a woodcut of AA
with the Bible...
Publishing
Emma Marshall
The idea was suggested by the success that had greeted a story taken from the life of the Bible translator William Tyndale
, which she had published serially in The Fireside.
Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley, 1900.
157
Textual Production
Emma Marshall
She wrote of Tyndale
in book form in Dayspring: A Story of the Times of William Tyndale, 1882: this presents the vernacular Bible as the great tool for empowering individual believers by taking religion...
Timeline
Before October 1526: William Tyndale completed and published,...
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Before October 1526
William Tyndale
completed and published, at Worms in Germany, the first English translation of the New Testament to reach print.
Bible. Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
4 October 1535: Miles Coverdale published at Antwerp the...
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4 October 1535
Miles Coverdale
published at Antwerp the first translation of the complete Bible into English, done by himself and William Tyndale
.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
ODNB under Coverdale
1538: Royal Injunctions appeared: a radical, Erasmian...
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1538
Royal Injunctions appeared: a radical, Erasmian
document whose first provision was that an English bible should be made available in every parish church.
Powell, Ken, and Chris Cook. English Historical Facts: 1485-1603. Macmillan, 1977.
111
MacCulloch, Diarmaid. “How good is it?”. London Review of Books, Vol.
33
, No. 3, 3 Feb. 2011, pp. 20-2.
20-1
Smyth, Adam. “23153.8; 19897.7; 15635”. London Review of Books, Vol.
37
, No. 16, 27 Aug. 2015, pp. 37-9.
38
8-12 May 1543: An Act for the advancement of true religion...
National or international item
8-12 May 1543
An Act for the advancement of true religion and for the abolishment of the contrarie (i.e. to establish religious censorship) was rushed through Parliament.
Lehmberg, Stanford E. The Later Parliaments of Henry VIII: 1536-1547. Cambridge University Press, 1977.
186-9
Adamson, John William. ’The Illiterate Anglo-Saxon’ and Other Essays on Education, Medieval and Modern. Cambridge University Press, 1946.
46
MacCulloch, Diarmaid. “How good is it?”. London Review of Books, Vol.
33
, No. 3, 3 Feb. 2011, pp. 20-2.
20-1
October 2014: Forty years after it had become one of the...
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October 2014
Forty years after it had become one of the first five Oxford men's colleges to admit women, Hertford College
marked the occasion by replacing its dining-hall portraits of male eminences with striking black-and-white photographs of...