Oliver Wort - John Bale and Religious Conversion in Reformation England

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Wort, Oliver, author.
John Bale and religious conversion in Reformation England. (Religious cultures
in the early modern world)
1. Bale, John, 14951563 Religion Sources. 2. Protestant converts England
History 16th century. 3. Reformation England.
I. Title II. Series
248.244092-dc23

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I owe very specific and substantial debts to the British Academy and the Arts and Humanities Research Council for generously supporting this project at different stages of its gestation. Still, my greatest thanks are reserved for those who expertly guided my research and set me right over the years: Eamon Duffy, Colin Burrow, Brian Cummings, John Guy and Raphael Lyne. I must of course thank my publishers for their patience in dealing with another first-time author, and also David Money for overseeing my reading of Latin. Of the many other dues incurred during the course of this work, I am particularly grateful to the staff and students of Kyushu University, Japan, for giving me my first big break, no matter how fleeting, and to Richard Copsey for generously sharing his manuscript transcriptions and translation with me; Bale studies would be greatly impoverished without his work. The students and Fellows of Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, provided me with a receptive, challenging and exciting academic environment in which to work, and I am grateful to my friends and colleagues you know who you are for their conversation and camaraderie. As always, I owe infinite gratitude and apologies to my family for their understanding and their devotion, even when I was at my most tiresome. Finally, what can I say to Andrew Moore, who deserves more than a simple thank you for all his love and support? Do not think yourself worst because you are placed last, not first.

I hope that the scholars with whom I sometimes take issue will recognize that each grumble is an ungracious acknowledgement of the importance of their work. As for my own very numerous faults, which would be manifest no matter how short the book, I hand over to John Bale, the subject of this study: if you are irritated by anything that is unscholarly or crudely expressed, do not blame it solely on my stupidity.

Wherever possible only English is used in the main body of this book, primarily to facilitate its reading. Unless otherwise stated all translations and paraphrases are my own; I must therefore take full responsibility for all awkward, hopefully not too inaccurate, renderings. Corresponding original language texts mostly Latin, but also some German and Italian are usually provided in a note because many of the works discussed here are unedited or difficult to access, and occasionally the original, or its translation, illustrates a point in my argument. Throughout this study all references to the bible are to the Authorized Version (1611), provided there is no reason to use an earlier translation or edition. Although anachronistic, this is for readers ease of reference.

Because endnotes are used here, not footnotes, some attempt has been made to rationalize these, though inevitably readers may find themselves flicking backwards and forwards in the book more than they would like. In cases where I quote repeatedly from the same primary work in a single paragraph, I have tried to collect page references together in a single note following the appearance of the final quotation, save in instances where translations are involved or where this convention risks confusion. As per the publishers house style, the Works Cited at the back of the volume is not a comprehensive listing of all the references consulted in the preparation of this book; rather, it includes only the works specifically cited in the text and notes. Likewise, as per house style traditional capitalization rules have been applied to all book and manuscript titles.

In the presentation of original texts in English, punctuation and spelling have not been modernized, though abbreviations have been silently expanded and I have made u/v and i/j conform to modern practice. In the presentation of original texts in languages other than English, abbreviations have been silently expanded but no other modernization has been attempted. For run-on verse quotations, I have used the vertical bar (|) with a space on either side to indicate the original division between lines. Where I have used the solidus (/), it is because this is a feature of the original text.