The Rule of Thomas Cranmer in Diocese and Province

Abstract

Thomas Cranmer's register in Lambeth Palace Library is little known and not yet published. This article surveys and summarizes the author's researches over twenty-five years in preparing an edition of that document. The register is not as complete as many medieval Canterbury registers. Nonetheless, it shows how the royal supremacy developed in a church cut off from Roman jurisdiction. There are many parallels with medieval patterns of ecclesiastical jurisdiction, and Cranmer seems to have been unable or unwilling to make large-scale changes in prevailing practice. Nonetheless, during the reign of Edward VI, the register illustrates a reforming archbishop at work, as he tried to implement evangelical reforms in diocese and province. The untimely death of Edward VI cut short these reforming measures, and the accession of Mary led to Cranmer's deprivation, when the formal record of his register ends.     

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The English Reformation in Dublin

As monarch of the lordship and (since 1541) kingdom of Ireland, King Henry VIII and his successors imposed the same ecclesiastical and religious policies they devised for England on Dublin, the most English city in Tudor Ireland. Far-reaching changes were effected to quite a remarkable degree. Yet the English Reformation failed to take root in the Irish city. This paper explores both the course of the Reformation in the capital of English Ireland and the reasons for its general failure. It also highlights some implications of Dublin’s experience relevant to continuing debates in English Reformation studies.     

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