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        Date: 2026-03-10 10:00:00+00:00
        From: Alison Fox <alison.fox@ucl.ac.uk>
        Subject: New open access book in digital humanities: Thomas Cranmer’s Register: A record of archiepiscopal administration in diocese and province (UCL Press)

UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of a new open access book
that may be of interest to list Thomas Cranmer’s Register: A record of
archiepiscopal administration in diocese and province, by the late Paul Ayris.

Download it free: https://uclpress.co.uk/book/thomas-cranmers-register/

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Thomas Cranmer’s Register
A record of archiepiscopal administration in diocese and province
Edited by Paul Ayris
Free download: https://uclpress.co.uk/book/thomas-cranmers-register/

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Thomas Cranmer’s Register records turbulent change in England and Wales between
1533 and 1553. The crown abolished Roman jurisdiction, and the first steps
towards the creation of a Protestant state were made. As archbishop of
Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer was a seminal figure in these developments, and his
register is a key Reformation document.

The physical register at Lambeth Palace has been out of reach for many scholars.
Paul Ayris’s extraordinary edition makes more of the text available to readers
than ever before, with transcriptions and editorial introductions that
illuminate the sometimes cryptic sixteenth-century text. Here, the appointment
of Cranmer to Canterbury (at the hands of the papacy) in 1533 is recorded.
Commissions and letters reveal how the crown assumed authority over the church
and, through Thomas Cromwell as vicegerent in spirituals, supplanted the role of
the archbishop as the principal minister of the king’s spiritual jurisdiction.
The work suggests a new explanation for the inclusion/exclusion of the
stipulation in the 1536 royal Injunctions concerning the Bible in English.
Moreover, unpublished records for the diocese of Norwich in 1550 reveal that the
order for removing altars in English churches emanated from Thomas Cranmer not,
as is usually thought, from the bishop of London, Nicholas Ridley. This edition
will be a touchstone reference for global scholars of the Tudor period.

Published in association with the Canterbury and York Society.

Free download: https://uclpress.co.uk/book/thomas-cranmers-register/
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