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Hace 4 días · The first reverse for the city's puritan leaders came in 1617. William Laud, newly appointed dean of Gloucester, moved the communion table from the middle of the cathedral choir to the east end.
18 de may. de 2024 · The scale of the chasm between the two authors can scarcely be exaggerated. Trevor-Roper’s biography of Archbishop William Laud, first published in 1940, must represent one of the most gloriously imperfect matches of author and subject in the whole canon of historical writing.
16 de may. de 2024 · William Laud (LAWD; 7 October 1573 – 10 January 1645) was a bishop in the Church of England. Appointed Archbishop of Canterbury by Charles I in 1633, Laud was a key advocate of Charles I's religious reforms; he was arrested by Parliament in 1640 and executed towards the end of the First English Civil War in January 1645.
Hace 3 días · During the reign of Charles I, the Arminians were ascendant and closely associated with William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (1633–1645). Laud and his followers believed the Reformation had gone too far and launched a " 'Beauty of Holiness' counter-revolution, wishing to restore what they saw as lost majesty in worship and lost ...
Hace 4 días · Concrete evidence, much of it administrative, proves that the royal touch was practised by Edward I, Edward II and Edward III, and then all of the Tudor and Stuart monarchs apart from William III. Before Edward I a tiny amount of anecdotal evidence suggests that Edward the Confessor and Henry II both attempted to heal by touch ...
Hace 2 días · On the advice of the two men who had replaced Buckingham as the closest advisers of the king— William Laud, archbishop of Canterbury, and the earl of Strafford, his able lord deputy in Ireland—Charles summoned a Parliament that met in April 1640—later known as the Short Parliament—in order to raise money for the war against ...
Hace 5 días · A Confusion of Tongues: Britain’s Wars of Reformation, 1625-42. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012, ISBN: 9780199698257; 266pp.; Price: £65.00. Nearly 30 years have passed since the publication of John Morrill’s highly-influential article ‘The religious context of the English Civil War’.
