Today the Church of England recalls the Northumbrian monk and scholar the Venerable Bede.
Bede was of special interest to sixteenth-century polemicists and antiquarians, particularly Archbishop Matthew Parker. Read on to see why....
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This essay examines Archbishop Matthew Parker’s prefaces to the 1568 Bishops’ Bible. It illustrates how these prefaces supported the attempts made by Parker (1504-75) to link the fledgling Elizabet...
