REFORMATION

The academic journal of The Tyndale Society is now produced by the distinguished London firm Equinox Publishing Ltd, who are specialists in this field. Volume 11, their first edition for us, is distributed to members of the Tyndale Society, and available to institutions, by subscription only, in print and on line.

REFORMATION is a leading journal for the publication of scholarship concerning the Reformation era. It addresses any aspect of the Reformation, broadly considered. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, theology, church history, or religious matters Protestant, Catholic, and Radical; English and Continental literature; social, political, and intellectual history; art history and architecture; music; the Bible, biblical scholarship and translation; translation, scholarship, and education more generally.

Co-Editors:
Andrew Hadfield (University of Sussex)
John N. King (The Ohio State University)

Book Review and Associate Editor:
Hannibal Hamlin (The Ohio State University)

Founding Editor:
Professor David Daniell

VOLUME 11 is co-edited by Professor Andrew Hadfield (University of Sussex) and Professor John N. King (The Ohio State University) Book Reviews are edited by Hannibal Hamlin (The Ohio State University) and there is an international panel of Associate Editors.

This issue contains a wide range of subjects:
Joe Coker provides a fascinating essay on the church life of English Separatists who fled to the Low Countries in the 16th century to escape persecution, showing how such groups interacted with Dutch Anabaptists prior to relocation to the Americas, where they emigrated after having returned to Britain. An investigation of handwritten marginalia conducted by Steven K. Galbraith, Curator of Rare Books at The Ohio State University, provides insight into the reception of printed sermons by an English reader (in all likelihood a preacher) at the turn of the 17th century. Michael Malo-Johnston adds further insight into Reformation print culture by analyzing the earliest printed editions of Piers Plowman, the great medieval visionary allegory, which were published at a tumultuous time when magnates who governed England during the minority of Edward VI had abandoned his father's exceedingly cautious approach to ecclesiastical reform. Bonnie Noble provides a meticulous analysis of Lucas Cranach's 1547 Wittenberg Altarpiece as a revolutionary work designed in opposition to the artworks of the pre-Reformation church, placing great emphasis on the Lutheran conception of the sacraments. Lucy Wooding explores the notion of charity in 16th century England, showing how an understanding of this vital concept bound communities together and often cut across religious distinctions.

The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers grants Reformation an annual award of £150. The prize for 2006 has been awarded to Dr Lucy Wooding of Kings College London for her article, 'Charity, Community and Reformation Propaganda.'

Within a field of other strong contenders, this essay offers a distinctive reassessment of centuries-old belief in a series of binary distinctions that sundered Protestantism and Catholicism. Focusing on charity, community, and social justice, Dr Wooding's compelling argument claims that to a very considerable degree commonality of belief survived the demonization of the papacy that followed England's schism from the Church of Rome.