The Anglican Canons, 1529-1947
$363.34
- Hardcover
1104 pages
- Release Date
2 April 1998
Summary
This volume is a major new scholarly edition of some of the most important sources in the history of the Anglican Church. It includes all the canons produced by the Church of England, from the opening of the Reformation parliament in 1529 to 1947. Most of the material comes from the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, among which the canons of 1529, 1603 and 1640, and Cardinal Pole’s legatine constitutions of 1556, are of particular importance. But the volume also includes the first…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780851155579 |
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| ISBN-10: | 085115557X |
| Author: | Gerald Bray |
| Publisher: | Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
| Imprint: | The Boydell Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 1104 |
| Release Date: | 2 April 1998 |
| Weight: | 1.53kg |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm |
| Series: | Church of England Record Society |
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A formidable volume - the first critical edition of post-Reformation Anglican canon law to appear since 1842… A substantial introduction combines conceptual clarity with immense detail… Altogether, this is a book of remarkable scholarship and weight, and, for historians of canon law, it must be an indispensable volume. A work of great historical interest to the Church of England… will undoubtedly prove to be an invaluable asset. Offers theologians, historians and legal experts the most comprehensive and expertly annotated single volume available on English canon law from the genesis of the English Reformation to the reign of * ANGLICAN AND EPISCOPAL HISTORY *
About The Author
Gerald Bray
The Reverend Dr Gerald Bray (PhD, Paris-Sorbonne) was the Professor of Anglican Studies at Beeson Divinity School and is now a research professor there. He is also Director of Research at the Latimer Trust. Among his other work he is the editor of Documents of the English Reformation (James Clarke & Co, 1994, second edition 2004).
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