12 October 1524 A.D. Bishop Cuthbert Tunstall (London), Booksellers, and Early Protestantism in England—Game on! Luther's trumpet blast against Henry VIII
12 October 1524 A.D. Bishop Cuthbert Tunstall (London), Booksellers, and Early Protestantism in England—Game on! Luther's trumpet blast against Henry VIII Some backstory. Leo X had issued Ex Surge on 15 June 1520, commanding that Luther’s books be burned and taking up 41 articles against the Germanic Teuton in Wittenberg (11). Luther’s “Treatise on the Power of the Pope and Bishops” was popular at Oxford (12), although this notice seems anachronistic since it was published in 1537 (cf. http://bookofconcord.org/treatise.php , a commendable document). Luther’s writings were burned at St. Paul’s Cross, London on 12 May 1521. This was arranged by Cardinal Wolsey and John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester. Fisher preached the sermon “damning the new heresies” (12). Leo X’s “bull” had been off the presses 10 months earlier, but the imperial Edict of Worms was to come— 26 May 1521 . By the time of the Wolsey/Fisher book burning i...