This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1537.
Events
February –
The Institution of the Christian Man (also called The Bishops' Book), is written by a board of 46 divines and bishops headed by Thomas Cranmer. The purpose, like that of the Ten Articles of the previous year, is to implement the reforms of
Henry VIII by separating from the
Roman Catholic Church and reforming the Ecclesia Anglicana. "The work was a noble endeavor on the part of the bishops to promote unity, and to instruct the people in Church doctrine."[1]
The English scholar
John Twyne publishes an edition of the late-medieval encyclopedic verse dialogue Sidrak and Bokkus, The history of kyng Boccus, Sydracke... translatyd by Hugo of Caumpeden, out of frenche into Englysshe.
^Blunt, J. (1869). The Reformation of the Church of England – its history, principles and results (
A.D. 1514–1547). London; Oxford; Cambridge: Rivingtons. pp. 444–445.
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1537.
Events
February –
The Institution of the Christian Man (also called The Bishops' Book), is written by a board of 46 divines and bishops headed by Thomas Cranmer. The purpose, like that of the Ten Articles of the previous year, is to implement the reforms of
Henry VIII by separating from the
Roman Catholic Church and reforming the Ecclesia Anglicana. "The work was a noble endeavor on the part of the bishops to promote unity, and to instruct the people in Church doctrine."[1]
The English scholar
John Twyne publishes an edition of the late-medieval encyclopedic verse dialogue Sidrak and Bokkus, The history of kyng Boccus, Sydracke... translatyd by Hugo of Caumpeden, out of frenche into Englysshe.
^Blunt, J. (1869). The Reformation of the Church of England – its history, principles and results (
A.D. 1514–1547). London; Oxford; Cambridge: Rivingtons. pp. 444–445.