Person
Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury
Findings that rest on exhibits naming this entity
- REL-2.2: The Constitutions of Archbishop Arundel, drafted in 1407 and promulgated in 1409, forbade anyone to translate a text of Scripture into English on his own authority and forbade reading any such translation until the diocesan or a provincial council approved it, under the greater excommunication.
- REL-2.9: Innocent III in 1199 called the desire to understand the divine Scriptures "commendable" while condemning secret lay assemblies and usurped preaching; Thomas More wrote in 1529 that the clergy kept from the laity only translations not yet approved or already condemned; the 1559 Act of Supremacy limited what commissioners could adjudge heresy; and Anne Hudson reports about 250 surviving manuscripts of the Wycliffite Bible, including a copy owned by Henry VI.
- REL-2.10: How far vernacular Scripture was restricted in Europe and England before 1520, given licensing, noble and orthodox ownership and the limits of the Toulouse and Oxford texts, is disputed and is not settled by the documents cited here.
Exhibits naming this entity
- Exhibit 494 1407-1409 (Oxford 1407/8; ratified at St Paul's, London, 14 January 1408/9). Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury, with the clergy of the Province of Canterbury: Constitutions of Archbishop Thomas Arundel against the Lollards (Constitutions of Oxford), 1407-1409
- Exhibit 529 n.d. (Tyndale Society Journal no. 2). Anne Hudson (historian of Lollardy): Anne Hudson, 'The First Complete English Bible', Tyndale Society Journal no. 2