Mumpsimus, Sumpsimus
Diarmaid MacCulloch: Common Prayer, 24 May 2012
Book of Common Prayer: The Texts of 1549, 1559 and 1662
edited by Brian Cummings.
Oxford, 830 pp., £16.99, September 2011,978 0 19 920717 6 Show More
edited by Brian Cummings.
Oxford, 830 pp., £16.99, September 2011,
“... editions still appeared in the 20th century. (I myself was partly responsible for one of them.) Brian Cummings’s version has a certain memorial quality, partly because it answers so many questions about the book and partly thanks to the classic splendour of the OUP production, but it is unlikely to be the last. Thomas Cranmer and his fellow Protestants ... ”