Ayris, Paul;
(2026)
Thomas Cranmer's Register: A record of archiepiscopal administration in diocese and province.
UCL Press: London, UK.
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Thomas Cranmer’s Register records turbulent change in England and Wales between 1533 and 1553. The crown abolished Roman jurisdiction, and the first steps towards the creation of a Protestant state were made. As archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer was a seminal figure in these developments, and his register is a key Reformation document. The physical register at Lambeth Palace has been out of reach for many scholars. Paul Ayris’s extraordinary edition makes more of the text available to readers than ever before, with transcriptions and editorial introductions that illuminate the sometimes cryptic sixteeenth-century text. Here, the appointment of Cranmer to Canterbury (at the hands of the papacy) in 1533 is recorded. Commissions and letters reveal how the crown assumed authority over the church and, through Thomas Cromwell as vicegerent in spirituals, supplanted the role of the archbishop as the principal minister of the king’s spiritual jurisdiction. The work suggests a new explanation for the inclusion/exclusion of the stipulation in the 1536 royal Injunctions concerning the Bible in English. Moreover, unpublished records for the diocese of Norwich in 1550 reveal that the order for removing altars in English churches emanated from Thomas Cranmer not, as is usually thought, from the bishop of London, Nicholas Ridley. This edition will be a touchstone reference for global scholars of the Tudor period. Published in association with the Canterbury and York Society
| Type: | Book |
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| Title: | Thomas Cranmer's Register: A record of archiepiscopal administration in diocese and province |
| ISBN-13: | 9781800089174 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781800089174 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800089174 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © Author, 2026 Any third-party material in this book is not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence. Details of the copyright ownership and permitted use of third-party material is given in the image (or extract) credit lines. Every effort has been made to identify and contact copyright holders and any omission or error will be corrected if notification is made to the publisher. If you would like to reuse any third-party material not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright owner.This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. This licence allows you to share and adapt the work for non-commercial use providing attribution is made to the author and publisher (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work) and any changes are indicated. Attribution should include the following information:Ayris, P. 2026. Thomas Cranmer’s Register: A record of archiepiscopal administration in diocese and province. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800089174Further details about Creative Commons licences are available athttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | English Reformation, Tudor society, heresy, Church, State |
| UCL classification: | UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10219723 |
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