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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Frontispiece - Portrait (illustrator). First Edition. FIRST EDITION. WOODBRIDGE : 1993. Papers given at a conference marking the 500th anniversary of Cranmer's birth, held at Cranmer Hall, St John's College, Durham, 2nd July 1989. Hardback. Blue cloth; silver lettered spine. Printed paper label to cover. No owner name or internal markings. Bright, tight and clean. NEAR FINE. (xv), 360 pages. Includes bibliographical references. Index. CONTENTS: Part 1 The ideological background: Cranmer's relations with Erasmianism and Lutheranism, B. Hall; Cranmer's library - it's potential for Reformation studies, D.G. Selwyn. Part 2 Thomas Cranmer's career as archbishop and reformer: setting forth the Word of God - Archbishop Cranmer's early patronage of preachers, S. Wabuda; Cranmer as humanist reformer, M. Dowling; God's viceregent and Christ's vicar - the relationship between the Crown and the archbishopric of Canterbury, 1533-53, P. Ayris; Thomas Cranmer and John Dudley - an uneasy alliance, 1549-53. Part 3 Cranmer and the reform of worship and spirituality: treasures old and new - a look at some of Thomas Cranmer's methods of liturgical compilation, B.D. Spinks; Cranmer's marriage vow - it's place in the tradition, K.W. Stephenson; Cranmer and popular religion, E. Duffy; Cranmer, the Eucharist and foreign divines in the reign of Edward VI, B. Hall; Excursus, B. Hall. Part 4 The martyrdom: "I pray to God to grant that I may endure to the end" - a new look at the martyrdom of Thomas Cranmer. Appendices: Thomas Cranmer, 1489-1556; Thomas Cranmer's writings - a bibliographical survey, D.G. Selwyn; Thomas Cranmer's register, Paul Ayris; Cranmer's commonplace books, D.G. Selwyn and Paul Ayris; canon law studies, Paul Ayris. SUMMARY: Thomas Cranmer lived at a time of profound ideological and ecclesiastical change, and his continuing legacy as England's first Protestant Archbishop and liturgical reformer has placed his reputation at the mercy of partisan positions on both sides of the Reformation divide. This volume, enlarged and expanded from papers presented at a conference marking the 500th anniversary of Cranmer's birth, aims to shed new light on its subject, placing him firmly in his 16th-century context. The ideological background to his work is addressed by papers examining his theological writings, from his early years in the European movement of religious change, and by a consideration of Cranmer's library (as it survives today) as a potential resource for the study of his intellectual background and development, and of writers that may have influenced him. Cranmer's career is followed through a study of the preachers he patronized, and their role in encouraging reform; by studies of Cranmer's own work as a reformer in schools and universities; and through an exploration of relations between Crown and See during his Archbishopric. A third theme, Cranmer and the reform of worship and spirituality, emerges from study of his liturgical composition (and its European intellectual context), and his campaign in the Canterbury diocese against popular religion. An appendix includes source material relating to Cranmer and his career. **Heavy; over 1 kilo; extra postage needed overseas. Will be well-packed for posting/shipping.**. 8vo. [ Rosley Books for Antiquarian books, Cumberland, Everyman, Keswick, Inklings, Literature, MacDonald, Rarities, Theology and History. ].