Oaths and the English Reformation

ISBN-13: 9781316635575 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 286 str.

Jonathan Michael Gray

Opis

An examination of the significance and function of oaths in the English Reformation.

Recenzje

'The central thesis of this carefully written and precisely annotated book is that the primary accomplishment of the English Reformation is to be found in the texts of the many and varied oaths that were forced upon English citizens by the Crown at that time as well as in the measure of the resistance with which they were met. To know what the Reformation in that country was about at that period we need not turn primarily to an assessment of the cult of images at various shrines or to popular treatises or to the composition of new prayers or devotional manuals.' J. Robert Wright, Anglican and Episcopal History

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Notes on the text; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The theoretical basis of swearing oaths; 2. Oaths, subscriptions, and the implementation of the Parliamentary reforms of 1534; 3. The origin and motivation of the Henrician professions; 4. Responses to the oaths of succession and supremacy; 5. Oaths and the pilgrimage of grace; 6. Oaths, evangelicals, and heresy prosecution; Conclusion; Appendix A. The oaths of a bishop-elect to the Pope; Appendix B. The oaths of a bishop-elect to the King in restitution for their temporalities; Appendix C. The promise of the bishops to renounce the Pope and his bulls; Appendix D. The oaths of succession; Appendix E. Instructions for the visitation of the friars, their profession, and the profession of other clerical institutions in 1534; Appendix F. The professions of bishops and universities in 1535; Appendix G. Post-1535 Henrician oaths of supremacy; Bibliography; Index.