Reformation and Early Modern Christianity

We still lack a systematic or complete theory of tradition. By referring to the works of many major figures of the last century – Arendt, Boyer, Eisenstadt, Eliot, Gadamer, Goody, Hobsbawm, Kermode, Leavis, MacIntyre, Oakeshott, Pieper, Pocock, Popper, Prickett, Shils and others – I show that a theory of tradition mus…

• JOHN JAMES ALEXANDER

This book presents a critical edition of a collection of liturgical manuscripts that the Augustinian friar Onofrio Panvinio (1530–1568) assembled in the 1560s for the Cardinal Alessandro Farnese as well as for Hans Jakob Fugger in Augsburg. Onofrio Panvinio is primarily known for his antiquarian studies about ancient…

This paper traces the history of the Benedictine community of St Mary’s Cathedral Priory, Worcester, from 1534 until its surrender in 1540, with the aim of determining the number and identity of the monks of Worcester at the time of the dissolution. No deed of surrender survives for the priory that would record the na…

• DAVID EWAN THORNTON

This article examines the apparent practice among monks and regular canons in England before the Dissolution of dropping their family surnames on admission/profession, and adopting instead a new ‘monastic byname’, derived from a place name (toponym) or, by the late fifteenth century onwards, from a saint’s name (hagio…

• DAVID EWAN THORNTON

This article evaluates ordination lists preserved in bishops’ registers from late medieval England as evidence for the monastic orders, with special reference to religious houses in the diocese of Worcester, from 1300 to 1540. By comparing almost 7,000 ordination records collected from registers from Worcester and nei…

• DAVID EWAN THORNTON

The Reformation in European history was an attempt to remove ecclesiastical authority from political (or secular) authority and culture – a process called secularisation. During the eighteenth and especially nineteenth centuries, however, secularisation gained a different meaning, which is, briefly stated, evolving fr…

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This study moves an idea that support the ideology of modernization and the efforts of the new nation, developed in close contact with the official ideology, spread a wide audience many novels were written and in order to explain the new nation of literature in the early years of the Republic. In this context, Resat N…

A study of the Hutchinsonian interests of John Wesley shows that the founder of Methodism over a long period had a recurrent engagement with this predominantly High-Church Anglican combination of Physics and Theology. The argument of this paper is that Wesley had several reasons to take an interest in Hutchinsonianism…

A novel ion beam physical vapor deposition technique has been developed for TiN thin film deposition. The method uses only standard surface science tools, namely a cold cathode ion gun (normally used for sputter cleaning with Ar) operated with N2 gas and a modified titanium sublimation pump as a Ti PVD source. TiN thi…

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The position of women in Christianity has been controversial from the early period. Although there were many examples of women's activities in religious life during that period, women were excluded from the church hierarchy in the later period. However, unlike institutional Christianity, women were more prominent in m…

• HALİL TEMİZTÜRK

This paper evaluates a number of series of document at The National Archives as evidence for the prosopography of monastic orders in England and Wales during the second half of the 1530s. In particular, the testimony of the acknowledgments of the Oath of Supremacy in 1534 (TNA, E 25), the certificates of the suppressi…

• DAVID EWAN THORNTON