Age of Revival Non-fiction

Reginald Peacock 1390-1460

1. Called the only great English theologian of the 15th century
2. Educated in Oxford.
3. Received his bishopric of St. Asaph in 1444, forced to resign his bishopric and his books were publicly burnt because of his inconventional religious views against the power of reason.
4. Works:
   1. Repressor of Over-much Blaming of the Clergy (c. 1455)
      1. Added a new dimension to the Lollard movement.
   2. The Book of Faith
      1. A 15th century theological tract and Donet, a guide to religious knowledge.

Sir John Fortescue 1399-1475

1. An English Jurist and political theorist active during the reign of Henry VI and Edward IV.
2. Works:
   1. De laudibus legum Angliae (In Praise of English Law) 1470
      1. Written when he fled to Scotland with the royal family and served as the tutor to the young prince Edward. It was written for the prince’s instruction.
   2. Pamphlets on Succession
      1. Written between 1461 and 1463
      2. De titulo Edwardi comitis Marchiae
   3. Constitutional Writings
      1. De Laudibus Legum Anglie
      2. The Governance of England

John Fisher 1469 – 1535

1. English cardinal and Bishop of Rochester
2. Mostly wrote asctical or controversial treatises
3. Works:
   1. Treatise concernynge…the seven penytencyall Psalms (1508)
   2. Sermon…agayn ye pernicyous doctrin of Martin Luther (1521)
   3. Defensio Henrici VIII (1525)
   4. De Veritate Corporis et Sanguinis Christi in Eucharistia
   5. Adversus Johannem Oecolampadium (1527)
   6. The Ballad of Barry Buttock, a Cautionary Tale (1529)
   7. De Causa Matrimonii … Henrici VII cum Catharina Aragonensi (1530)
   8. The Ways to Perfect Religion (1535)
   9. A Spirituall Consolation written … to hys sister Elizabeth (1735)
4. Fisher was beheaded on the tower hall on the 22nd June, 1535 because he was accused of being a traitor for not acknowledging King Henry VIII as the supreme head of the church.

Hugh Latimer 1485- 1555

1. English Bishop, one of the chief promoters of reformation in England
2. Works:
   1. A Fruitful Exhortation to the Reading of Holy Scripture in The First Book of Homilies.
   2. His Sermons before King Edward VI are well known.

John Capgrave 1393-1464

1. English historian, hagiographer and scholastic theologian
2. He was praised by John Bale as “the most learned of all the Augustinians”
3. Works:
4. Commentaries on parts of Old and New Testament, on Genesis, Exodus and Acts;
5. De Fidei Symbolis, and a collection of biographies of famous men named Henry: Liber de Illustribus Henricis or Book of the Illustrious Henries is his Latin works to have been edited and translated into English.
6. Nova Legenda Angliae
   1. The first comprehensive collection of English saints’ lives.

Robert Fabyan 1470-1513

1. An English Chronicler, belonged to the Essex family.
2. Works:
   1. Concordance of Histories
      1. Begins with brutus and moves to the death of Richard III

John Bourchier Second Lord Berners 1467-1533

1. An English soldier, statement and translator
2. Works:
   1. Translator of Froissart
   2. Translations such as:
      1. Froissart’s Chronicles (1523 – 25)
      2. Huon of Bordeaux (1534)
      3. The Golden Book of Marcus Aurelius (1535) from a French version of Guevara’s work
      4. The History of Arthur of Lytell Brytaine

Thomas Cranmer 1489-1556

1. First Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury
2. Works:
   1. The Book of Common Prayer 1549 (Cranmer compiled and translated from Latin prayers.)
   2. An Answer unto a Crafty and Sophistical Cavillation devised by Stephen Gardiner (1551)
   3. The Answer of Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury, against the False Calumniations of Doctor Richard Smith (1551)
   4. Short Instruction into Christian Religion.
   5. The Book of Common Prayer Preface to the Great Bible (1539)

George Cavendish 1497-1562

1. Best known as the biographer of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey
2. Other works: Layffe, Deathe.

George Buchanan 1506-1582

1. A Scottish historian.
2. Works:
   1. Baptistes sive Calumnia (written before 1544, not published until 1577)
   2. Jephthes sive Votum (1544)
   3. The Sphera
   4. The Art and Science of Government Among the Scots
   5. De Jure Regni apud scotos (1579)
   6. History of Scotland (1582 posthmaesly)

Thomas Wilson 1524-1581

1. In 1580, Queen Elizabeth appointed Wilson Dean of Durham.
2. Works:
   1. The Rule of reason, conteinyng the Arte of Logique (1551)
      1. Dedicated to King edward VI
   2. Arte of Rhetorique (1553)
      1. Dedicated to John Dudley, Earl of Warwick and Master of Horse, the work explained the Principles of eloquence.
   3. Discourse on Usurye (1572)

Thomas Elyot 1490- 1546*

1. English author and administrator
2. Was appointed as the ambassador to Charles V
3. Served as Member for Cambridge in 1542
4. Works:
   1. The Boke Called the Governor 1531
      1. Dedicated to Henry VIII
   2. Elyot composed the first English dictionary of classical Latin**
   3. The Defense of Good Women 1540
      1. Dedicated to King’s new wife Anne
   4. The Knowledge, which maketh a Wise Man and Pasquyll and Playne 1533
   5. The Bankette of Sapience 1534
   6. The Castle of Health 1536
   7. Latin Dictionary 1538
   8. Preservative Agaynste Deth 1545

William Tyndale 1494- 536*

1. Biblical translator and theologian
2. Influenced by professor of Greek language studied, Erasmus (the first to produce a Greek New Teatament)
3. Works:
   1. Translated New Testament in English 1525
      1. First printing of the New Testament of Tyndale was in 1526 in Worms, Germany
      2. Henry VIII opposed the translation and church officials condemned it.
   2. A Pathway into the Holy Scripture
      1. A reprint of his Prologue to the Quarto edition of New Testament
   3. The Parable of the Wicked Mammon 1527
   4. The Obedience of a Christian Man 1527 – 28
   5. Practyse of Prelates 1530
   6. Answer to Dialogue 1531
   7. Exposition of the First Epistle of St John 1531
   8. An Exposition upon the V VI VII Chapter of Matthew 1532
   9. A Brief Declaration of the Sacraments in 1536
4. 1535: Tyndale was betrayed by his friend Henry Phillips and imprisoned by King’s officials. Later burnt.

Miles Coverdale 1488-1568