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Biography

Name: Thomas Cranmer
Birth Date: July 2, 1489
Death Date: March 21, 1556
Place of Birth: Aslacton, Nottinghamshire, England
Place of Death: England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: archbishop

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Biography of Thomas Cranmer
827 words, approx. 3 pages
The English ecclesiastic Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556) was the first Protestant archbishop of Canterbury. Thomas Cranmer was born in Aslacton, Nottinghamshire, on July 2, 1489, the son of a village squire. He went to Cambridge University at the age of 14;...
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Biography of Thomas Cranmer
6,047 words, approx. 20 pages
Thomas Cranmer is remembered chiefly because his work as a liturgist during the reign of Edward VI was recovered in the Elizabethan Settlement of Religion and over time became the standard form of Christian worship for the English-speaking world. As a...
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Biography of Thomas Cranmer
3,115 words, approx. 10 pages
Thomas Cranmer's library is one of the best-known collections of books and manuscripts to have survived in some form from the early Tudor period. Few private collections of Cranmer's day contained more than 200 books and manuscripts. In 1530, the...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Cranmer, Thomas Summary
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CRANMER, THOMAS (1489–1556), archbishop of Canterbury (1533–1556), a principal figure in the reformation of the Church of England. Born of a gentry family in Nottinghamshire, Cranmer entered Jesus College, Cambridge, at the age of...
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Thomas Cranmer Information
6,728 words, approx. 22 pages
Details of Cranmer's early life are scarce. Cranmer was born in 1489 in Aslacton, now Aslockton, near Nottingham. His parents, Thomas and Agnes (Hatfield) Cranmer, were from the lesser gentry and had only enough wealth and land to support their eldest...


News and Journals
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Contemporary Review
Thomas Cranmer: A Life.
07/01/1997: 687 words, approx. 2 pages
Of the 103 Archbishops of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer stands out as the most important. He was certainly not the most saintly or perhaps the most efficient but he, more than any other man, left his imprint on the Church in England as it struggled...
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Anglican Journal
The enigma of Thomas Cranmer [Erasmus lecture]
12/01/2003: 621 words, approx. 2 pages
[Graph Not Transcribed ] HEROIC DEFENDER of Reformed Protestantism or villainous betrayer of the Catholic Church? Disobedient schismatic or unifying symbol of resistance? Emblem of an immutable liturgy or one that changes with the times? Who was Thomas Cranmer? Anglicans will...
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AP News
Ex-prosecutor on trial over terror case
10/10/2007: 379 words, approx. 1 pages
A former federal prosecutor's ambition led him to withhold evidence that could have helped the defense during the nation's first major terrorism trial after the Sept. 11 attacks, a government lawyer said at trial Wednesday.Richard Convertino had designs on a seat in Congress and broke...
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AP News
Today in history - May 28
5/28/2007: 577 words, approx. 2 pages
Today is Monday, May 28, the 148th day of 2007. There are 217 days left in the year. This is the Memorial Day observance.Today's Highlight in History:On May 28, 1934, the Dionne quintuplets _ Annette, Cecile, Emilie, Marie and Yvonne _ were born to Elzire...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by C. H. Smyth
16,448 words, approx. 55 pages
In the following excerpt, Smyth considers charges that Cranmer was theologically inconsistent and attempts to determine the years during which the works collected in an edition entitled Cranmer's Liturgical Projects, edited by Dr. Wickham Legg, were written.
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Critical Essay by Geoffrey William Bromiley
14,650 words, approx. 49 pages
In the following excerpt, Bromiley outlines Cranmer's achievements as a religious reformer and a theological scholar.
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Critical Essay by James A. Devereux
8,089 words, approx. 27 pages
In the following essay, Devereux analyzes Cranmer's translations of sixty-six Latin orationes.
 


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