Showing posts with label Queen Elizabeth 1. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Queen Elizabeth 1. Show all posts

Saturday, September 29, 2012

ABC Thomas Cranmer's Ambitious Legacy



http://www.historytoday.com/diarmaid-macculloch/cranmers-ambiguous-legacy

 

Cranmer's Ambiguous Legacy







By Diarmaid MacCulloch







Diarmaid MacCulloch reflects on the 'after-life' of Henry VIII's archbishop, burnt at the stake as a Protestant martyr under Mary.

 


Portrait of Cranmer after Henry VIII's death by an unknown artistArchbishop Thomas Cranmer died at the stake in 1556,

ABC Thomas Cranmer's Ambitious Legacy



http://www.historytoday.com/diarmaid-macculloch/cranmers-ambiguous-legacy

 

Cranmer's Ambiguous Legacy







By Diarmaid MacCulloch







Diarmaid MacCulloch reflects on the 'after-life' of Henry VIII's archbishop, burnt at the stake as a Protestant martyr under Mary.

 


Portrait of Cranmer after Henry VIII's death by an unknown artistArchbishop Thomas Cranmer died at the stake in 1556,

Sunday, August 12, 2012

Thomas Becon (1512-1567): Cambridge Don, Prebend (Canterbury) & English Reformer




http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/articles/pages/3756/Becon-Thomas-1512-1567.html


 Thomas Becon (1512–1567) - BIOGRAPHY, MAJOR WORKS AND THEMES, CRITICAL RECEPTION

Thomas Becon is one of those writers whom students of English history and literature invariably see, when they look at the writers at all, as examples of the “incipient Puritanism” of the mid-Tudor dynasty. One of the most prolific

Thomas Becon (1512-1567): Cambridge Don, Prebend (Canterbury) & English Reformer




http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/articles/pages/3756/Becon-Thomas-1512-1567.html


 Thomas Becon (1512–1567) - BIOGRAPHY, MAJOR WORKS AND THEMES, CRITICAL RECEPTION

Thomas Becon is one of those writers whom students of English history and literature invariably see, when they look at the writers at all, as examples of the “incipient Puritanism” of the mid-Tudor dynasty. One of the most prolific