Chapter 7. A Godly Upbringing
Published Online: 17 DEC 2009
DOI: 10.1002/9781444307832.ch7
Copyright © 2009 Eric Ives
Book Title
Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery
Additional Information
How to Cite
Ives, E. (2009) A Godly Upbringing, in Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781444307832.ch7
Publication History
- Published Online: 17 DEC 2009
- Published Print: 18 SEP 2009
ISBN Information
Print ISBN: 9781405194136
Online ISBN: 9781444307832
- Summary
- Chapter
Keywords:
- godly upbringing, Jane Grey growing up in an atmosphere of unrelieved piety;
- the England Jane Grey was brought up - country in turmoil–religious turmoil;
- Henry VIII, rejecting authority of pope - breaking thousand-year link with Western Christianity;
- doctrinal and liturgical reform too – licensing an English Bible;
- ‘Religion restored’ - meaning different things to different people;
- Jane Grey, no evidence that she ever learned anything but a reformed Christianity;
- denying truth of transubstantiation, capital offence – Anne Askew and three others being burned at the stake;
- accounting for Edward VI's stoutly evangelical views;
- early religious influence - Jane spending time with Katherine Parr, Henry VIII's widow;
- Jane's Italian teacher Florio - feeding Jane Catholic atrocity stories