Wide-ranging study...containing much of interest in its own right [and] likely to stimulate fresh thinking. on the Church during the early Reformation in England. HISTORY [Claire Cross] * Sets out to look at the episcopate as a whole over one period of what many of us now see as a number of Reformations... [It] relates ideas well to what bishops did. It is a good synthesis with original perspectives, opening new territory.

• Theologies of episcopacy in mid-Tudor England; models of episcopal office; bishops of the English Church, 1520-1559; the bishop and preaching; bishops and the provision of education; prayer and sacrifice - the life of the bishop; episcopal activity 1 - the eradication of heresy; episcopal activity 2 - the propagation of the ministry; conclusion - the old episcopate in a new order; appendix 1 - prosopography of the bishops in office 1520-59; appendix 2 - the dioceses; appendix 3 - the education of the bishops - membership of Oxford and Cambridge colleges, English and Welsh bishops at foreign universities; appendix 4 - the bishops of Sodor and Man.

Wide-ranging study...containing much of interest in its own right [and] likely to stimulate fresh thinking. on the Church during the early Reformation in England. HISTORY [Claire Cross] * Sets out to look at the episcopate as a whole over one period of what many of us now see as a number of Reformations... [It] relates ideas well to what bishops did. It is a good synthesis with original perspectives, opening new territory.

• Theologies of episcopacy in mid-Tudor England; models of episcopal office; bishops of the English Church, 1520-1559; the bishop and preaching; bishops and the provision of education; prayer and sacrifice - the life of the bishop; episcopal activity 1 - the eradication of heresy; episcopal activity 2 - the propagation of the ministry; conclusion - the old episcopate in a new order; appendix 1 - prosopography of the bishops in office 1520-59; appendix 2 - the dioceses; appendix 3 - the education of the bishops - membership of Oxford and Cambridge colleges, English and Welsh bishops at foreign universities; appendix 4 - the bishops of Sodor and Man.

Wide-ranging study...containing much of interest in its own right [and] likely to stimulate fresh thinking. on the Church during the early Reformation in England. HISTORY [Claire Cross] * Sets out to look at the episcopate as a whole over one period of what many of us now see as a number of Reformations... [It] relates ideas well to what bishops did. It is a good synthesis with original perspectives, opening new territory.

• Theologies of episcopacy in mid-Tudor England; models of episcopal office; bishops of the English Church, 1520-1559; the bishop and preaching; bishops and the provision of education; prayer and sacrifice - the life of the bishop; episcopal activity 1 - the eradication of heresy; episcopal activity 2 - the propagation of the ministry; conclusion - the old episcopate in a new order; appendix 1 - prosopography of the bishops in office 1520-59; appendix 2 - the dioceses; appendix 3 - the education of the bishops - membership of Oxford and Cambridge colleges, English and Welsh bishops at foreign universities; appendix 4 - the bishops of Sodor and Man.