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Rankin, Mark |
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English Literary Renaissance; Spring2016, Vol. 46 Issue 2, p157-192, 36p, 9 Color Photographs, 2 Black and White Photographs, 1 Illustration |
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Bible translator and reformer William Tyndale's The Practyse of Prelates (1530) has languished in obscurity or enjoyed a largely unfavorable reputation among most critics who have commented on it. Contemporary readers viewed this book differently. Tyndale adapted the fable of the Oak and the Briar from classical, Continental, and biblical sources as an allegory of the abuse of papal authority. When the martyrologist John Foxe adopted this specific allegory from Tyndale as partial basis for his revision of Acts and Monuments in its expanded, second edition (1570), he substantially amplified the reach of Tyndale's ideas. Handwritten marginalia located in surviving, sixteenth-century copies of Tyndale's book supply evidence that Tyndale's earliest readers engaged Tyndale's thought in a manner which supports Foxe's use of Tyndale's arguments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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