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| Keywords: Hugh Latimer Preaching to Edward VI.png en Hugh Latimer preaching to King Edward VI of England a woodcut in John Foxe's Acts and Monuments better known as Foxe's English Martyrs By the time this book was published in 1563 Edward VI was revered as a pious patron of the English Reformation a new Josiah who loved nothing better than to hear sermons during which he often took notes He is depicted here listening from a gallery to a sermon by Bishop Hugh Latimer who along with Thomas Cranmer and Nicholas Ridley was a key figure in the development of Protestantism in Edward's reign and like them a martyr under Edward's Catholic successor Queen Mary I Historian Diarmaid MacCulloch stresses the accuracy of this image of Edward though fellow historian Jennifer Loach cautions against too ready an acceptance of the portrayal of Edward by Reformation propagandists such as Foxe who called Edward a godly imp The pulpit in the Privy Garden at the Palace of Whitehall had been built by Henry VIII in an enclosure which continued to be used for animal-baiting and wrestling The king's pulpit became the most fashionable preaching place in London provoking Latimer to complain Surely it is an ill misorder that folk shall be walking up and down in the sermon-time as I have seen in the place this Lent and there shall be such huzzing and buzzing in the preacher's ear that it maketh him oftentimes to forget his matter References Diarmaid MacCulloch The Boy King Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation Berkeley University of California Press 2002 pp 21 “25 107; Jennifer Loach Edward VI New Haven CT Yale University Press 1999 pp 180 “81 Chris Skidmore Edward VI The Lost King of England London Weidenfeld Nicolson 2007 ISBN 9780297846499 From John Foxe's Acts and Monuments artist unknown Uploaded by qp10qp 1563 left 100px PD-old-100 Foxe's Book of Martyrs Reformation Edward VI of England Hugh Latimer | ||||
