Thomas Cranmer Summary

Cranmer, Thomas 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 Nottinghamsh... Read more

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... Read more

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 mor... Read more

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'... Read more

In the following excerpt, Bromiley outlines Cranmer's achievements as a religious reformer and a theological scholar. Introduction—the Reformer By Shakespeare's classification ... Read more

In the following essay, Bond assesses the history and the critical reception of Certain Sermons, or Homilies. The attempt of the English church during the sixteenth century to vindicate Henry... Read more

In the following excerpt, Wabuda describes how Cranmer's Certain Sermons, or Homilies gradually replaced sermons and doctrine from the Middle Ages with what he regarded as more scripturally bas... Read more