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Tudor Church Reform

The Henrician Canons of 1535 and the `Reformatio Legum Ecclesiasticarum'
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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2000

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First critical edition and translation of documents crucial to our understanding of the English Reformation.

The English Reformation began as a dispute over questions of canon law, and reforming the existing system was one of the state's earliest objectives. A draft proposal for this, known as the Henrician canons, has survived, revealing the state of English canon law at the time of the break with Rome, and providing a basis for Cranmer's subsequent, and much better known, attempt to revise the canon law, which was published by John Foxe under the title `Reformatio legum ecclesiasticarum' in 1571. Although it never became law, it was highly esteemed by later canon lawyers and enjoyed an unofficial authority in ecclesiastical courts. The Henrician canons and the `Reformatio legum ecclesiasticarum' are thus crucial for an understanding of Reformation church discipline, revealing the problems and opportunities facing those who wanted to reform the Church of England's institutional structure in the mid-Tudor period,an age which was to determine the course of the church for centuries to come.This volume makes available for the first time full scholarly editions and translations of the whole text, taking all the available evidence into consideration, and setting the `Reformatio' firmly in both its historical and contemporary context. GERALD BRAY is Anglican Professor of Divinity at Beeson Divinity School, Samford University.

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    Frontmatter

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    CONTENTS

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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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    ABBREVIATIONS

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  • INTRODUCTION
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    The origins of canon law reform

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    1. The Henrician canons

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    2. The Reformatio legum ecclesiasticarum

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    3. The church order of the Reformatio

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    4. Conclusion

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  • THE HENRICIAN CANONS
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    Preface

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    1. De summa Trinitate et fide Catholica

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    2. De officio contionandi

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    3. De simonia

    16
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    4. De adulteriis et stupro

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    5. De crimine falsi

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    6. De periurio et fidei laesione

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    7. De sortilegiis

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    8. De blasphemia

    28
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    9. De defamatione et convitio

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    10. De excessibus in genere

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    11. De accusationibus

    34
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    12. De purgatione

    44
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    13. De publicis paenitentiis et aliis poenis ecclesiasticis

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    14. De sententia excommunicationis

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    15. De electionibus

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    16. De renuntiatione

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    17. De supplenda negligentia

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    18. De tempore ordinationum

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    19. De clericis non residentibus

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    20. De institutionibus

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    21. De permutatione

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    22. De sponsa et matrimoniis

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    23. De divortiis

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    24. De decimis

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    25. De decimis Londiniensibus

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    26. De leprosis

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    27. De mortuariis

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    28. De pensionibus

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    29. De procurat {ori}/ion/ibus

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    30. De dilapidatione

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    31. De testamentis

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    32. De limitibus paroechiarum

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    33. De sequestrationibus

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    34. De computo gardianorum

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    35. De modo procedendi in causis ecdesiasticis

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    36. De appellationibus et nullitatum querelis

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  • THE REFORMATIO LE GUM ECCLESIASTICARUM
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    Signs used in the text

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    REFORMATIO LEGUM ECCLESIASTICARUM

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    REX EDOV ARDUS SEXTUS

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    1. DE SUMMA TRINITATE ET FIDE CATHOLICA

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    2. DE HAERESIBUS

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    3. DE IUDICIIS CONTRA HAERESES1

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    4. [DE] BLASPHEMIA QUIBUS

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    5. DE SACRAMENTE

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    6. DE IDOLOLATRIA ET ALIIS HUIUSMODI CRIMINIBUS

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    7. DE CONTIONATORIBUS

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    8. DE MATRIMONIO

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    9. DE GRADIBUS IN MATRIMONIO PROHIBITIS

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    10. DE ADULTERIIS ET DIVORTIIS

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    11. DE ADMITTENDIS AD ECCLESIASTICA BENEFICIA

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    12. DE RENUNTIATIONE VEL DESERTIONE BENEFICIORUM

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    13. DE PERMUTATIONE BENEFICIORUM ECCLESIASTICORUM

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    13. DE PERMUTATIONE BENEFICIORUM ECCLESIASTICORUM

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    15. DE DILAPIDATIONIBUS

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    16. DE ALIENATIONE ET ELOCATIONE BONORUM ECCLESIASTICORUM

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    17. DE ELECTIONE

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    18. DE BENEFICIIS ECCLESIASTICIS SINE DIMINUITONE CONFERENDIS

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    19. DE DIVINIS OFFICIIS

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    20. DE ECCLESIA ET MINISTRIS EIUS, ILLORUMQUE OFFICIIS

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    21. DE ECCLESIARUM GARDIANIS

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    22. DE PAROCHIARUM LIMITATIONE

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    23. DE SCHOLIS ET LUDIMAGISTRIS

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    24. DE ACADEMIIS ET PRIMUM DE PRAEFECTIS COLLEGIORUM

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    25. DE DECIMIS

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    [25.19 DE PENSION/BUS]

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    26. DE VISITATIONIBUS

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    27. DE TESTAMENTI

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    28. DE POENIS ECCLESIASTICIS

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    29. DE SUSPENSIONE

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    30. DE FRUCTUUM DEDUCTIONE VEL SEQUESTRATICENE, UT VULGO DICITUR, PROPTER VARIAS CAUSAS

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    31. DE DEPRIVATIONE

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    32. DE EXCOMMUNICATIONE

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    33. FORMULA RECONCILIATIONIS EXCOMMUNICATORUM

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    34. DE IUDICIIS, ET UBI QUIS AGERE VEL CONVENIRI DEBEAT

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    35. DE CRIMINIBUS

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    36. DE IUDICIIS

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    37. DE OFFICIO ET IURISDICTIONE OMNIUM IUDICUM

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    38. DE LITIS CONTESTATIONE

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    39. DE IURAMENTIS ET PERIURIIS

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    40. DE IURAMENTO CALUMNIAE

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    41. DE PROBATIONIBUS

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    42. DE POSSESSIONE

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    43. DE FIDE [INSTRUMENTORUM]

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    44. DE CRIMINE FALSI

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    45. DE TESTIBUS, EORUMQUE DICTIS

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    46. DE CONSUETUDINE

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    47. DE PRAESCRIPTIONIBUS

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    48. DE VIOLENTA PERCUSSIONE CLERICORUM

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    49. DE PRAESUMPTIONIBUS

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    50. DE DEFAMATIONIBUS

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    51. DE DILATIONIBUS

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    52. DE EXCEPTIONIBUS

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    53. DE SENTENTIA ET RE IUDICATA

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    54. DE APPELLATIONIBUS

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    55. DE REGULIS IURIS

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  • APPENDIXES
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    1. THE FOLIO PAGES IN MS HARLEIAN 426 (British Library)

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    2. TITLES OF THE DECRETALS

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    3. THE REFORMATIO AND THE DECRETALS

    765
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    4. FROM THE HENRICIAN CANONS TO THE REFORMATIO

    769
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    5. THE REFORMATIO IN BISHOP EDMUND GIBSON'S CODEX

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  • INDEXES OF SOURCES AND REFERENCES
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    1. TO HOLY SCRIPTURE

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    2. TO CANONS OF ECUMENICAL COUNCILS

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    3. TO THE CORPUS IURIS CANONICI

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    4. TO THE LEGATINE CONSTITUTIONS OF OTHO (1237) AND OTHOBON (1268)

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    5. TO WILLIAM LYNDWOOD'S PROVINCIALE

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    6. TO OTHER ENGLISH CANONS

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    7. TO OTHER CANONS

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    8. TO THE CORPUS IURIS CIVILIS

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    9. TO THE STATUTES OF THE REALM

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    10. TO THE ROYAL INJUNCTIONS

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    11. TO THE ARTICLES OF RELIGION

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    12. TO THE HENRICIAN CANONS OF 1535

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    13. TO THE MEDIEVAL CANONISTS

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    SUBJECT INDEX

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    BIBLIOGRAPHY

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April 3, 2024
eBook ISBN:
9781787441187
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Church of England Record Society
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https://doi.org/10.1515/9781787441187
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Keywords for this book
Tudor church reform; Henrician canons; Reformatio Legum Ecclesiasticarum; English Reformation; canon law; church discipline; church structure; mid-Tudor period; church history; ecclesiastical courts; Gerald Bray
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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
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