The Bible translator Miles Coverdale
was her almoner during the last months of her life, and preached at her funeral.
Tyrwhit, Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady. “Introduction”. Elizabeth Tyrwhit’s Morning and Evening Prayers, edited by Susan M. Felch, Ashgate, 2008, pp. 1-51.
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Material Conditions of Writing
Queen Elizabeth I
During her early, precarious years Princess Elizabeth sometimes scribbled relevant verses, by herself or others, on blank spaces in books she read. Under house arrest in 1557 she used in this way the flyleaf of...
Reception
Frances Neville Baroness Abergavenny
It seems, then, that Lady Abergavenny was part-author of a book of prayers that went through seven editions between 1577 and 1626. In 1624 The Perfect Path to Paradise (called by the Oxford Dictionary of...
Textual Production
Anne Ridler
During the 1960s AR
sat on another committee controlling a major collaborative literary project: the committee appointed by the Council of Churches
to oversee a new and modernised translation of the Bible. She found...
Timeline
4 October 1535: Miles Coverdale published at Antwerp the...
National or international item
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.
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MacCulloch, Diarmaid. “How good is it?”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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Smyth, Adam. “23153.8; 19897.7; 15635”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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20 May 1549: A parliamentary Act of Uniformity prescribed...
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20 May 1549
A parliamentary Act of Uniformity prescribed use of the first Book of Common Prayer in parish churches; every church had to possess a copy.
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
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MacCulloch, Diarmaid. “How good is it?”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 3, 3 Feb. 2011, pp. 20-2.
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Smyth, Adam. “23153.8; 19897.7; 15635”. London Review of Books, Vol.