| Barnett, Eleanor 2026. John Jewel and Thomas Harding: Eucharist debates (1562-1565). Yeoman, Victoria and Goldstein, David B., eds. Early Modern English Foodways: A Critical Sourcebook, Routledge, (10.4324/9780429279935-16) |
Abstract
John Jewel (1522–1571) was a leading Protestant reformer who became Bishop of Salisbury in 1560 under Queen Elizabeth I (r. 1558–1603). His career as an Oxford scholar began when he matriculated at Merton College in 1535, aged 13. Following his election in 1548 to the post of reader in humanity and rhetoric, Jewel became influenced by the Italian theologian and reformer Pietro Martire Vermigli (known in English as Peter Martyr), who was regius professor of divinity at Oxford at the time. After the accession of the Catholic Queen Mary (r. 1553–1558) to the English throne, Jewel subscribed to the Catholic articles of faith but soon realized that this would not protect him from arrest; he subsequently fled with others of Protestant conviction to the Continent. In Frankfurt, Zürich, and Strasbourg, Jewel mixed with English exiles who would also end up playing important roles in the foundation of the Elizabethan Church after Mary’s death. As bishop-elect of Salisbury, Jewel was selected by the Elizabethan regime to preach at St Paul’s Cross in London. In his famous “Challenge Sermon,” first delivered on 26 November 1559, Jewel provoked a literary battle by challenging “any learned man of our adversaries” to prove the Roman Catholic case out of Scripture, the writings of the Church Fathers, or the primitive Church, in the six hundred years after Christ. Many of his criticisms centered around the Catholic Mass, the service in which the bread and wine of the Eucharist were offered. Practices like the private Mass, Communion in one kind (meaning the laity were not offered the wine, only the bread), and the adoration of the sacrament were seen as corruptions or “abuses” of true Christian rituals.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Date Type: | Publication |
| Status: | Published |
| Schools: | Schools > History, Archaeology and Religion |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BL Religion D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain |
| Publisher: | Routledge |
| ISBN: | 9780367234621 |
| Funders: | Leverhulme |
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| Last Modified: | 06 Aug 2026 14:39 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/180611 |
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