11 February 1526 A.D. *A Good Anglican Show* at St. Paul’s, London—Book-Burning, Fisher’s Sermon, and Service of Abjuration
11 February 1526 A.D. * A Good Anglican Show* at St. Paul’s, London—Book-Burning, Fisher’s Sermon, and Service of Abjuration Place: St. Paul’s, London. Time: 0800 AM. Quinquagesima Sunday, 11 Feb 1526 A.D. Theme: a spectacular show of repudiation, abjuration, and a good solid show of burning books. “Special scaffolds over the stairs” were erected to hold approximately forty-plus ecclesiastical dignitaries—36 abbots, mitred priors, bishops, chaplains, and doctors, all in “damask and silk” (27). A special pulpit was put above these seated dignitaries. All this elevated for good theater. Opposite the scaffold for the church dignitaries another special scaffold was created for the religious criminals. Again, for visibility. A "good Anglican show." In between the two scaffolds were “baskets of books” but, Prof. Clebsch informs us, not a lot given the determined search in London, Oxford and Cambridge. But t...