The English Enchiridion of Erasmus, 1533

Mozley, J. F.

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“…McConica asserted it was his. 22 Robert Demaus and Daniell are among those expressing caution. 23 The most learned discussion is by Anne O'Donnell in her edition of the 1534 second edition for the Early English Text Society in 1981.…”

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William Tyndale and Erasmus on How to Read the Bible: A Newly Discovered Manuscript of the English Enchiridion

Cummings

2018

Reformation

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British Library MS Additional 89149, newly discovered in 2015 at Alnwick Castle, is a previously unknown translation of Erasmus' Enchiridion militis Christiani into English. Dated 1523, it now represents the earliest surviving English translation of any work by Erasmus. This article presents detailed verbal evidence that associates the vocabulary of imitatio in the translation with William Tyndale's hermeneutic work on scripture, including his New Testament of 1525-1526. It thus offers the strongest evidence to date of Tyndale's hand in the English Enchiridion, long the subject of scholarly enquiry. It also provides a fresh interpretation of Tyndale's engagement with Erasmian humanism, and his position on disputes over literal and figurative senses in early Protestantism. At the heart of this is the distinctive English word 'counterfeit', the meanings of which are traced through a range of medieval and Renaissance sources, from Chaucer onwards.

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William Tyndale and Erasmus on How to Read the Bible: A Newly Discovered Manuscript of the English Enchiridion

Cummings

2018

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A Reappraisal of William Tyndale's Debt to Martin Luther

Trinterud

1962

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The colorful and powerful figure of Martin Luther dominates all study of the early years of the Reformation. Inevitably the first pages of the history of the Reformation in any region will begin with an effort by the author to trace the manner in which Luther's influence reached that area. In the study of the English Reformation one of the common ways of showing Luther's influence is to point to the work of the Bible translator William Tyndale. Numerous books on the English Reformation, on the history of the English Bible, and on Tyndale himself, have made of him a follower and an interpreter of Luther who played a major role in introducing the thought of the great reformer into England. A careful study of Tyndale's works, however, will show that his debt to Luther, and the “Lutheranism” of his views, has been over-stated. Tyndale, like many early sixteenth century religious reformers, made much use of Luther's name, fame, and works but without becoming a follower of those distinctive ideas of the German reformer which set him off from the other advocates of reform at the time. Tyndale's greatest debt was first to Christian humanism and then to the German-Swiss reformers of Zurich and Basel.

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Erasmus,Enchiridion Militis Christiani: An English Version

McCutcheon¹

2015

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The English Enchiridion of Erasmus, 1533

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William Tyndale and Erasmus on How to Read the Bible: A Newly Discovered Manuscript of the English Enchiridion

William Tyndale and Erasmus on How to Read the Bible: A Newly Discovered Manuscript of the English Enchiridion

A Reappraisal of William Tyndale's Debt to Martin Luther

Erasmus,Enchiridion Militis Christiani: An English Version

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