“Love this Name that is <scp>ihc</scp>”: Vernacular Prayers, Hymns and Lyrics to the Holy Name of Jesus in Pre-Reformation England

Lutton, Rob

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“…Among a significant minority of those who remained orthodox there developed pious sensibilities in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries that became increasingly focused on Christ and his passion, a trend that can be seen throughout England, especially in the popularity of the cult of the Holy Name of Jesus. In Kent, there is evidence also of scepticism of some of the more fantastic claims of the late medieval church, connected with the cult of saints and the practice of pilgrimage. With its emphasis on the veracity of eyewitness account, and the importance of detailed physical description of the evidence of the gospel narrative and Christ's passion, it is not difficult to see how Richard Guldeford's pilgrimage text might have appealed to this newly emerging audience for printed religious writing in English.…”

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Richard Guldeford's Pilgrimage: Piety and Cultural Change in Late Fifteenth‐ and Early Sixteenth‐Century England

Lutton

2013

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The account of Sir Richard Guldeford's pilgrimage, printed in 1511, is just one of over 500 surviving medieval accounts of the Jerusalem pilgrimage. In many ways conventional, it nonetheless bears a number of distinctive features. Its presentation of firstperson detailed eyewitness testimony in conjunction with judicious use of source material, innovative treatment of travel balanced with sober and restrained piety, and eschewal of some of the more fabulous aspects of pilgrimage literature, all make it an important example of the vogue for sober piety in late fifteenth-and early sixteenthcentury England. It provides evidence of critical engagement with debates surrounding pilgrimage and related aspects of religious practice such as indulgences and the cult of relics, and it is an important example of new approaches to the writing and publishing of the literature of pilgrimage and travel. Richard Guldeford, royal courtier and civil servant, did not write the account of his pilgrimage to the Holy Land, but it emanated from the Guldeford family's interests in fashionable humanist learning and reformist religious sensibilities. The text's innovations and tensions are representative of wider shifts and deeper fault-lines in late medieval religious culture prior to the enormous religious changes of the Reformation, and are further evidence of the ways in which pre-Reformation orthodox religious culture was neither homogeneous nor unchanging. Above all, it offered a reformed and rehabilitated practice of the Jerusalem pilgrimage at a time when pilgrimage was increasingly vulnerable to attacks from both orthodox and heterodox critics.

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Catholic Puritanism in Pre-Reformation England

Marshall¹

2015

Br. Cathol. Hist.

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This article seeks to identify a vein of ‘Puritanism’ running through orthodox religious culture in England over the century or so prior to the Break with Rome. It suggests that alongside the strong emphasis on the sensual and material in worship, it is possible to identify a current of austere and moralistic teaching, which was guarded or sceptical about the value of relics, images and pilgrimage. In the religious ferment around the turn of the fifteenth century, such attitudes developed alongside the forms of heterodoxy known as Lollardy, but were often explicitly anti-Lollard in intention. The article argues further that the strain of ‘puritanical’ Catholicism survived and developed through the fifteenth century, and into the sixteenth, partly as a consequence of the ability of print to preserve and promote old arguments. It converged with currents of Christian humanism, as well as providing a point of connection and reception for emergent evangelical ideas in the 1520s and later. The article thus aims to shed new light on the proposition that the origins of the Reformation are best looked for within the confines of late medieval orthodoxy.

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The First Bible Printed in England: A Little Known Witness from Late Henrician England

Poleg

2016

J. Eccles. Hist.

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The first Bible to be printed in England was produced in 1535 by the royal printer, and with Henry VIII's initial support. It has attracted little scholarly attention. This first extensive examination traces its creation and early reception as witness to the uncertain course of the English Reformation. Its origins reveal a dependency on continental models, which were then modified to create a book carefully placed between conservatism and reform. Priests, scholars, children and crooks left their marks on the Bible, and advanced digital technology exposes unique evidence for the merging of Latin and English in late Henrician liturgy.

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“Love this Name that is ihc”: Vernacular Prayers, Hymns and Lyrics to the Holy Name of Jesus in Pre-Reformation England

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Richard Guldeford's Pilgrimage: Piety and Cultural Change in Late Fifteenth‐ and Early Sixteenth‐Century England

Richard Guldeford's Pilgrimage: Piety and Cultural Change in Late Fifteenth‐ and Early Sixteenth‐Century England

Catholic Puritanism in Pre-Reformation England

The First Bible Printed in England: A Little Known Witness from Late Henrician England

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