The Book That Made England: Tyndale's New Testament at 500
The Book That Made England: Tyndale's New Testament at 500
With Professor Alec Ryrie
Auckland Palace
Wednesday 29 July
6.30pm - 8pm
Five hundred years ago, a printer in a small town in Germany produced the most important book ever printed in English, and the first copies began to be smuggled illegally across the Channel.
In this special anniversary talk, leading historian Alec Ryrie will trace how the mild Gloucestershire scholar William Tyndale came to produce the first printed English New Testament in defiance of the law and, ultimately, at the cost of his own life.
The talk will explore how the book that he produced started a long dance with the Tudor kings and queens, who tried by turns to ban Tyndale’s Bible and its successors or to make it their own. And it will show how that solitary, clandestine translator ultimately gave rise to the King James Bible, to a global Christian tradition of Bible translation and – not least – to the modern English language itself.
Join us at Auckland Palace to mark the 500-year anniversary of one of the most influential books ever printed in English.
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The Book That Made England: Tyndale's New Testament at 500
With Professor Alec Ryrie
Auckland Palace
Wednesday 29 July
6.30pm - 8pm
Five hundred years ago, a printer in a small town in Germany produced the most important book ever printed in English, and the first copies began to be smuggled illegally across the Channel.
In this special anniversary talk, leading historian Alec Ryrie will trace how the mild Gloucestershire scholar William Tyndale came to produce the first printed English New Testament in defiance of the law and, ultimately, at the cost of his own life.
The talk will explore how the book that he produced started a long dance with the Tudor kings and queens, who tried by turns to ban Tyndale’s Bible and its successors or to make it their own. And it will show how that solitary, clandestine translator ultimately gave rise to the King James Bible, to a global Christian tradition of Bible translation and – not least – to the modern English language itself.
Join us at Auckland Palace to mark the 500-year anniversary of one of the most influential books ever printed in English.
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