The Book of Common Prayer (In Our Time)
1549 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Book of Common Prayer. In 1549, at the height of the English Reformation, a new prayer book was published containing versions of the liturgy in English. Generally believed to have been supervised by Thomas Cranmer, the Book of Common Prayer was at the centre of the decade of religious turmoil that followed, and dispute
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Around 1549
- The Reformation (1517)
- Luther's 95 Theses (1517)
- William Shakespeare (1564)
- English Reformation (1533)
- Reign of Henry VIII (1509)
- Mughal Empire (1526)
- Sistine Chapel ceiling (1508)
- Mona Lisa (1503)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543)
- Reign of Elizabeth I (1558)