Thomas Cranmer with D. MacCulloch (preface), The Book of Common Prayer (Everyman, 1999) Brian Cummings (ed.), The Book of Common Prayer: The Texts of 1549, 1559 and 1662 (Oxford University Press ...

The Book of Common Prayer was written by Cranmer when he was Archbishop of Canterbury and was first published in 1549 in the reign of Edward VI, after his father Henry VIII’s break with Rome ...

I mentioned recently the grooves that the Book of Common Prayer had laid down in my brain -- as, it appears, it has done across much of the Anglosphere. Americans may underestimate the extent of ...

The Book of Common Prayer (BCP) has had an illustrious and checkered career since Archbishop Thomas Cranmer first introduced it to the Church of England back in 1549, almost five hundred years ago ...

While this is a brilliant book, it's not quite the one its subtitle leads the reader to expect. "The Book of Common Prayer and the Elizabethan Age" seems to suggest a history of the making and ...

Except for the King James Bible, no book has done more to influence the lives and language of English-speaking people than the Book of Common Prayer. The first Book of Common Prayer was printed in ...

After his outstanding scholarly edition of the 1549, 1552, and 1662 Prayer Books, here is a remarkable successor. His text is challenging, informative, and even swashbuckling, by turns. His ...

In 1549, the results of Cranmer's work were published as a "Book of Common Prayer," and initially, as Alan Jacobs, a professor of humanities at Baylor, ...

In 1549, the results of Cranmer's work were published as a "Book of Common Prayer," and initially, as Alan Jacobs, a professor of humanities at Baylor, ...