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John Rogers—Sealed with Blood: The Story of the First Protestant Martyr of Mary Tudor’s Reign is unavailable, but you can change that!

The life of John Rogers has been largely overlooked in recent Reformation scholarship, but, as Tim Shenton shows in this fresh biography, Rogers is rightfully placed alongside such pivotal figures as William Tyndale and Thomas Cranmer. Rogers excelled as a scholar, and his publication of what is called Matthew’s Bible was a critical step toward making the English people a “people of the book.” ...

After the Matthew’s Bible both men concentrated their efforts on the folio Bible, known as ‘the Great Bible’ (1539), which was a revision of the Matthew’s Bible but without the marginal notes, which, because of their Protestant bias, caused difficulties for some senior English clergy, who were still ‘nervous about allowing the laity to read the Bible in English’, especially if the notes led to it being read in a radically Protestant manner. In some ways the notes in the Matthew’s Bible were published
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