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Article: State vs. church: implementing Reformation.(England under Henry VIII in the early 1500s)
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- Journal of Church and State
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
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Henry Kamen wrote that "in medieval times the pulpit had been the chief moderator of public opinion, and in the sixteenth century both Protestants and Catholies rediscovered the potential of the sermon."(1) Although it is questionable how many people actually listened to sermons, Kamen's opinion was shared by authority figures in the early modern period. This was certainly the ease in the London diocese in the 1530s (as discussed by Brigden in her magisterial account of the city, and amply demonstrated by the struggle between two of Henry VIII's leading councillors to control the most famous pulpit in the country). St Paul's Cross was used, historically, as the ...