English Language 1500 - 1550
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- English Language 1500 - 1550
- Henry VIII reformation
- decided it was necessary to divorce Catherine and find a new queen
- The church would not allow for the divorce
- Henry decided to simply secede from the church, becoming the English Reformation
- The Dissolution of Monasteries
- 1534 Crown was undergoing financial difficulties. So appropriation of church property was feasable
- Along with destruction of monastries, related destruction of monastic libraries was a great cultural loss.
- Worcester Cathedral had 600 books at time, only six of them are known to have survived.
- Tyndale Bible 1526
- Have been revised and reprinted numerous times
- Was first major period of Bible translation into the English language.
- Tyndale used Greek and Hebrew texts of New and Old Testaments
- First of the Middle English translators to use the printing press to produce several thousand copies throughout England
- One of last countries in Europe to have a printed vernacular bible due to Henry VIII avoiding the propagation of heresies.
- The Great Bible 1539
- First officially authorized bible in English
- Issued to meet a decree hat each church should make it available in some convenient place
- But the liberty was so sudden that people abused it. King Henry therefore began to put restrictions on it
- Only Upper Classes allowed to posed a Bible
- Year before Henry's death, all versions were prohibited except Great bible
- The first Book of Common Prayer 1549
- Standardizes much of the wording of church services
- Attendance at prayer book services was required by law for many years
- Many ordinary church goers would have a copy (that's if you could afford it)
- Roughly 290 editions were produced between 1549 and 1642
- Before the end of the Civil War and the introduction of the 1662 prayer book, around half a million prayer books were in circulation
- Some argue the repeated use of language of the prayer book helped to standardize modern English
- Henry VIII reformation
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