All things made new : the Reformation and its legacy

473 Pages·2016·24.86 MB·English

by  MacCulloch

All Things Made New

Diarmaid M Culloch
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All Things Made New
The Reformation and Its Legacy
ALLEN LANE
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Names: MacCulloch, Diarmaid, author.
Title: All things made new : the Reformation and its legacy / Diarmaid
MacCulloch.
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Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Preface xi
Introduction: all things made new 1
part i
Reformations across Europe
1. Christianity: the bigger picture 15
2. Angels and the Reformation 23
3. The Virgin Mary and Protestant Reformers 32
4. John Calvin 55
5. The Council of Trent 70
6. The Italian Inquisition 78
part ii
The English Reformation
7. Tudor Royal Image-Making 87
8. Henry VIII: pious king 94
9. Tolerant Cranmer? 118
10. The Making of the Prayer Book 136
contents
11. Tudor Queens: Mary and Elizabeth 149
12. William Byrd 158
13. The Bible before King James 167
14. The King James Bible 175
15. The Bay Psalm Book 185
PART III
Looking Back on the English Reformation
16. Putting the English Reformation on the Map 197
17. The Latitude of the Church of England 218
18. Modern Historians on the English Reformation 239
19. Thomas Cranmer’s Biographers 256
20. Richard Hooker’s Reputation 279
21. Forging Reformation History: a cautionary tale 321
22. And Finally: the nature of Anglicanism 359
Acknowledgements 363
Notes 365
Index 437
List of Illustrations
1. The west front of Bath Cathedral Priory, c. 1500. Photograph:
istockphoto
2 and 3. Details of angels on the west front. Photographs: Alamy
4. Lucas de Heere, The Family of Henry VIII: An Allegory of the
Tudor Succession, c. 1572. National Museum of Wales, Cardiff.
Photograph: Bridgeman Images
5. Anon. (English school), The Somerset House Conference, 1604.
National Portrait Gallery, London. Photograph: Stefano Baldini/
Bridgeman Images
6. The opening of Psalm I, from the Psalter of Henry VIII, 1530–47.
British Library, London (Royal 2 A. XVI, f.3). Photograph: Bridge-
man Images
7. Title-page of The Byble in Englyshe, sixth edition, November 1541.
Cambridge University Library (Bible Society, Anderson Room,
BSS.201.B41.8). Reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of
Cambridge University Library
8. Gerhard Flicke, portrait of Thomas Cranmer, 1545. National Por-
trait Gallery, London. Photograph: Alamy
9. Portrait of Thomas Cranmer from Gilbert Burnet, The History of
the Reformation of the Church of England, 1679–82, Vol. 1, facing
p. 179. Photograph: University of California Libraries
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