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Don't go confusing your Thomas Cranmer with your Thomas More; now there is a Tudor faux-pas if ever there was one. Cranmer made the divorce happen, More lost his head over it. Cranmer wrote the Book of Common Prayer, More was the author of Utopia. And it was More who was canonized a saint, while Cranmer was executed by "Bloody" Mary Tudor for his fiendish plotting on behalf of Lady Jane Grey as well as for his embracing an evangelical brand of Protestantism the Catholic queen found wholly disagreeable. In this highly readable biography, we get the first new treatment of Cranmer in three decades, bolstered by recent scholarship and new sources. Think this stuff is remote? Cranmer, as Archbishop of Canterbury, crafted two editions of the English Book of Common Prayer. The success of this book had an enormous impact on the English language, loading terms with meaning and influencing the rhetoric of power for the next two centuries.
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The New York Times Book Review, Allen D. Boyer
... lucidly written, deeply researched and surprisingly accessible ... In his life, Thomas Cranmer may have lacked the virtues of Thomas ... Becket or Sir Thomas More ... his death showed something of their martyr's grace.
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Thomas Cranmer : A Life
Thomas Cranmer: A Life,Diarmaid MacCulloch,Yale University Press,0300074484,Biography & Autobiography,Biography / Autobiography,Biography/Autobiography,Christianity - Anglicanism,Europe - Great Britain - General,Political,Religious,Biography & Autobiography / Religious,Biography: historical,British & Irish history: c 1500 to c 1700,Church of England,England,c 1500 to c 1600,c 1600 to c 1700
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