Acknowledgements
Over the years that I have studied Archbishop Thomas Cranmer and his place in the Reformation in England, I have incurred many debts. I am grateful to the following research institutions and to their helpful staffs:
Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, University of York
British Library (BL)
Cambridge University Library (CUL)
Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.
Lambeth Palace Library (LPL)
The National Archives, London (Public Record Office) (TNA:PRO)
The Parker Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Fordham University released me from the classroom so that I could take up a Short-Term Fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library in the early months of 2013. I also was granted a Faculty Fellowship for the Fall 2014 semester and another leave at the end of 2015 so that I could bring this book to completion.
A selected portion of material intended for this book was presented as a paper before the Montreal British History Seminar and McGill’s Centre for Research on Religion in March 2014. I am grateful to Bob and Ann Tittler, Torrance Kirby, and the participants of the Seminar for their helpful suggestions. I also wish to acknowledge Professor Mark Ormrod and the Archbishops’ Registers of the Diocese of York 1225–1646 Project.
Special thanks for their wise advice go to Professors Jane Dawson, Judith M. Richards, and Lucy Wooding. For their encouragement over many years, I wish to thank Susan Brigden; Peter Newman Brooks; Euan Cameron; Anne Dillon; Eamon Duffy; Lori Anne Ferrell; Thomas S. Freeman; Bartlett and Faye Gage; Paul Hammer; Alasdair Hawkyard; Norman L. Jones; John Ryle Kezel; Peter Lake; Saskia Limbach; Scott C. Lucas; Joseph M. McShane, S.J.; Hilary Mantel; Peter Marshall; Ebru Turan; Andrew D. Pettegree; Alec Ryrie; David Starkey; John Vidmar, O.P.; Russell Wabuda; Stephen D. White; and David Whitford. I also wish to thank Albert Ryle Kezel for introducing me to the story of St. Barlaam of Antioch. I am also grateful for the helpful comments by the two anonymous readers of the manuscript of this book.
I also wish to remember many late friends and colleagues whose invaluable discussions helped to develop my thinking about Cranmer and the Reformation: Patrick Collinson, A. G. Dickens, G. R. Elton, Joan Henderson, E. W. Ives, Thomas F. Mayer, Eugene F. Rice, Conrad and Elizabeth Russell, R. W. Scribner, and Rosmarie Sunderland. Most especially, I am indebted to the late Maria Dowling for the references she gave me over the years when we discussed Cranmer’s career. Readers will notice that I have departed substantially from some of the points made by Professor Collinson in his essay ‘Thomas Cranmer and the Truth’ in his collection From Cranmer to Sancroft (2007). I have departed as well from Diarmaid MacCulloch’s Thomas Cranmer: a Life (1996).
The errors and omissions that will remain in my book are mine alone.