Cranmer and the Reformation under Edward VI

This essay by C. H. Smyth won the Thirlwall and Gladstone Prize, awarded by the History Faculty in the University of Cambridge, in 1925 and was first published in the following year. The text looks in depth at the English Reformation under Edward VI, which was almost unique in the fact that it was primarily concerned with social and domestic considerations, rather than foreign policy, and emphasises the role of foreign figures such as Martin Bucer in working with Archbishop Cranmer to create an intellectually rigorous form of Anglicanism. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the English Reformation and Protestantism in England.

Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Cranmer; Appendix. The date of Cranmer's liturgical projects; 3. English refugees in Switzerland; 4. Oxford and Peter Martyr; Appendix. Swiss students at Oxford; 5. Cambridge and Bucer; 6. The strangers' churches. John à Lasco; 7. The revision of the prayer book; 8. Northumberland; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.