Voices of the English Reformation : a sourcebook / edited by John N. King.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

King, John N., 1945-

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reformation--England--Sources.

Reformation.

Church history.

England--Church history--16th century--Sources.

England.

England--Church history--17th century--Sources.

Genre:

Sources.

Physical Description:

ix, 394 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2004]

Summary:

Spanning the different phases of the English Reformation from William Tyndale's 1525 translation of the Bible to the death of Elizabeth I in 1603, John King's magisterial anthology brings together a range of texts inaccessible in standard collections of early modern works. The readings demonstrate how Reformation ideas and concerns pervade well-known writings by Spenser, Shakespeare, Sidney, and Marlowe and help foreground such issues as the relationship between church and state, the status of women, and resistance to unjust authority. Plays, dialogues, and satires in which clever laypersons outwit ignorant clerics counterbalance texts documenting the controversy over the permissibility of theatrical performance. Moving biographical and autobiographical narratives from John Foxe's Book of Martyrs and other sources document the experience of Protestants such as Anne Askew and Hugh Latimer, both burned at the stake, of recusants, Jesuit missionaries, and many others. In this splendid collection, the voices ring forth from a unique moment when the course of British history was altered by the fate and religious convictions of the five queens: Catherine Parr, Lady Jane Grey, Mary I, Mary Queen of Scots, and Elizabeth I.

Contents:

1 Bible Translation and Commentary 17

1 Revelation 12:1-6: The Woman Clothed with the Sun; Revelation 17:3-6: The Whore of Babylon 19

A New Testament Translation (1525-26) / William Tyndale 19

B from The Image of Both Churches (c. 1545) / John Bale 22

C The Geneva Bible (1560) 31

D The Rheims New Testament (1582) 33

2 Translation Theory 37

A from The Obedience of a Christian Man (1528) / William Tyndale 37

B from The Confutation of Tyndale's Answer (1532-33) / Thomas More 45

C from A Temperate Ward-Word (1599) / Robert Parsons 49

2 Selfhood and Obedience in Church and State 55

1 from The Obedience of a Christian Man (1528) / William Tyndale 57

2 Book of Homilies (1547) 60

A From the "Homily of Faith" 60

B From the "Homily of Good Works" 63

3 from The Sermon on the Plowers (1548) / Hugh Latimer 68

4 from The Displaying of Protestants (1556) / Miles Hogarde 74

5 from The Christian Directory (1582) / Robert Parsons 77

6 from The Execution of Justice in England (1583) / William Cecil 80

7 from A True, Sincere, and Modest Defense of English Catholics (1584) / William Allen 85

3 Allegories of the English Reformations: Drama, Poetry, and Fiction 89

1 from A Comedy Concerning Three Laws (1538, pub. c. 1548) / John Bale 91

2 from Lusty Juventus (c. 1550) / Richard Weaver 109

3 from Philargyrie of Great Britain (1551) / Robert Crowley 139

4 from Beware the Cat (c. 1553, pub. 1570) / William Baldwin 152

5 from The Assault of the Sacrament of the Altar (1549, pub. 1554) / Miles Hogarde 166

4 Laity Versus Clergy: Dialogue and Monologue 179

1 John Bon and Master Parson (c. 1548) / Luke Shepherd 181

2 Doctor Double Ale (c. 1548) / Luke Shepherd 187

3 from The Country Divinity (1581) / George Gifford 201

4 from A Pleasant Dialogue Between a Soldier of Berwick and an English Chaplain (1581) / Anthony Gilby 204

5 The Marprelate Controversy, from Oh Read Over Doctor John Bridges, For It Is a Worthy Work (1588) 210

5 Theatrical Controversy 215

1 Prologue to The Life and Repentance of Mary Magdalene (c. 1550) / Lewis Wager 217

2 from Concerning the Kingdom of Christ (1550) / Martin Bucer 221

3 from The Anatomy of Abuses (1583) / Philip Stubbes 224

6 Biography, Autobiography, and Martyrology 229

1 from The Latter Examination (1546, pub. 1547) / Anne Askew 231

2 from The Vocation of John Bale (1553) / John Bale 242

3 from The Path of Obedience (c. 1556) / James Cancellar 258

4 from The Life of Sir Thomas More (c. 1556, pub. 1626) / William Roper 260

5 from The Book of Martyrs / John Foxe 268

A From the Life of William Tyndale (1570) 268

B The Burning of Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley (1570) 279

C The Examination and Execution of Alice Driver and Alexander Gouch (1570) 286

D The Hairbreadth Escape and Exile of the Duchess of Suffolk (1576) 292

6 Poems (1586) / Chidiock Tichborne 300

7 from An Epistle of Comfort (1587) / Robert Southwell 303

8 Poems (c. 1590) / Robert Southwell 308

9 from A Treatise of the Three Conversions of England (1603) / Robert Parsons 312

7 Queenly Pageantry and Texts 317

1 Prison Writings (1553-54) / Lady Jane Grey 319

A An Epistle to a Learned Man 319

B An Exhortation 322

C The Lady Jane's Words upon the Scaffold 323

2 from A Copy of a Letter Sent into Scotland (1555) / John Elder 325

3 from The Queen's Majesty's Passage Through the City of London (1559) / Richard Mulcaster 332

4 Letter on the Entry into Edinburgh of Mary, Queen of Scots (1561) / Thomas Randolph 343

5 from the Book of Martyrs / John Foxe 345

A Dedication to Queen Elizabeth I (1563) 345

B The Miraculous Preservation of the Lady Elizabeth (1563) 350

C The Deliverance of Catherine Parr from Court Intrigue (1570) 365.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [381]-384) and index.

ISBN:

0812237943

0812218779

OCLC:

55286638