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Printing, Power, and Piety: Appeals to the Public During the Early Years of the English Reformation: 162
Author(s): By Brad C. Pardue (Author)
- Publisher: BRILL
- Publication Date: 27 Aug. 2012
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 247 pages
- ISBN-10: 9004232052
- ISBN-13: 9789004232051
Book Description
This project examines the important implications of printed vernacular appeals to a nascent public by the reformer William Tyndale, by religious conservatives such as Thomas More, and by Henry VIII’s regime in the volatile early years of the English Reformation. The book explores the nature of this public (materially and as a discursive concept) and the various ways in which Tyndale provoked and justified public discussion of the central religious issues of his day. Tyndale’s writings raised important issues of authority and legitimacy and challenged many of the traditional notions of hierarchy at the heart of early modern European society. This study analyzes how this challenge manifested itself in Tyndale’s ecclesiology and his political theology.
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About the Author
Brad C. Pardue, Ph.D. (2010) in History, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is a Lecturer in History at the University of Tennessee, where he teaches the Western Civilization survey, as well as courses on the Reformation and Early Modern Europe.
