IMC 2007: Sessions
Session 711: Vernacularity 1300-1550, III: Political Issues
Tuesday 10 July 2007, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Institute for Medieval & Early Modern Studies, University of Aberystwyth / University of Kent |
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Organisers: | Elisabeth Salter, Institute for Medieval & Early Modern Studies (IMEMS) / Department of English Literature & Creative Writing, Aberystwyth University Helen E. Wicker, Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies (MEMS), University of Kent |
Moderator/Chair: | Elisabeth Salter, Institute for Medieval & Early Modern Studies (IMEMS) / Department of English Literature & Creative Writing, Aberystwyth University |
Paper 711-a | Seditious Speech and Popular Opinion in England, c. 1440-1453 (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Political Thought, Social History |
Paper 711-b | Rioting and Reading: The English Bible and the 1549 Enclosure Riots (Language: English) Index terms: Printing History, Rhetoric, Sermons and Preaching, Social History |
Paper 711-c | Vernacularity and Dissent: Orthodoxy and Lollardy in a Fifteenth-Century Devotional Miscellany (Language: English) |
Abstract | Mottram: Much was expected of the English Bible when printed and placed in parish churches in the late 1530s. It failed to deliver. In 1540, Cranmer could speak of scripture’s usefulness, not only as a means to faith, but as a manual for godly living. By 1549, he had conceded that England was full of hypocrites, who ‘with words approve’ the Bible message, but who in their ‘living clearly reject it’. With a focus on sermon-writing, this paper charts changing attitudes towards lay Bible reading in England, from the accession of Edward VI to the enclosure riots of Spring 1549. |