This link takes you to an interesting article about the fates of two great opposites, Sir Thomas More and William Tyndale. And, once again, Henry VIII’s lust for Anne Boleyn was at the heart of it.
Tyndale and More – strange bedfellows….
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Good article. I live in North Nibley, Gloucestershire on Tyndale Close and the Tyndale monument is right in my line of sight on the hill as I type 🙂
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[…] theses, indulgences and translating the Bible, first into German then English, he moved onto Tyndale‘s efforts to smuggle it into England and Henry’s efforts, through More, to stop him. […]
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[…] William Tyndale‘s 1530 book Practice of Prelates, the word was used in the sense of a stubborn opponent to […]
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Is “mumpsimus” an Early Modern synonym for “Cairo dweller”?
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