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By Jonathan Michael Gray
The perform of swearing oaths used to be on the centre of the English Reformation. at the one hand, oaths have been the medium in which the Henrician regime carried out its ideology and secured loyalty one of the humans. at the different, they have been the software through which the English humans embraced, resisted and manipulated royal coverage. Jonathan Michael grey argues that because the Reformation was once negotiated via oaths, their particular importance and serve as are principal to knowing it absolutely. Oaths and the English Reformation sheds new mild at the motivation of Henry VIII, the enforcement of and resistance to reform and the level of renowned participation and negotiation within the political method. putting oaths on the center of the narrative, this ebook argues that the English Reformation was resolute as a lot by means of its approach to implementation and reaction because it was once via the theology or political concept it transmitted.
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36 These examples demonstrate that the connection between oaths and the Mass was based on the presence of God in the Mass. Although the holiness of relics, saints, and the Mass led to their association with oaths, no sacred object was more connected to oaths than the Gospels. The majority of solemn oaths in medieval and early modern England were sworn on the Gospels. 40 Oaths of 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 Hill, Songs, Carols, and Other Miscellaneous Poems, 42. Wymond, however, denied the accusations made against him; NA sp1/113, fol.
Hieronymi Presbyteri Opera, Pars I, 7: Commentariorvm in Mathevm, 32–3. 23 Hooper, Early Writings, 479. CIC, c. 22 q. 1 c. 9, Friedberg, i:863. 24 what to swear by: oaths and the worship of god in medieval catholicism Catholics and Protestants alike asserted that oaths were a form of worship and, as such, humans should not swear oaths by creatures. Yet medieval Catholics worshipped God in a different manner from sixteenth-century Protestants. Medieval Catholics believed that the power of God was diffused throughout the material world in certain sacred persons, objects, and ceremonies.
For example, this belief was not mentioned at all in the Homily against Swearing and Perjury. Yet many English Protestants continued to depict blasphemous oaths as mutilating Christ’s body. For example, a draft of an Elizabethan Parliamentary bill proposed that at every quarter session, ‘there shall be inquirie made the Iustices chardging the grand inquest for commen blasphemers of the most reverent name of god that is which teare god as it were in peaces swearing by 79 81 Cosin, An Apologie, part 3, 29.