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John Bale (21 November 1495 – November 1563) was an English churchman, historian and controversialist, and Bishop of Ossory in Ireland. He wrote the oldest known historical verse drama in English (on the subject of King John ), and developed and published a very extensive list of the works of British authors down to his own time ...
John Bale was a bishop, Protestant controversialist, and dramatist whose Kynge Johan is asserted to have been the first English history play. He is notable for his part in the religious strife of the 16th century and for his antiquarian studies, including the first rudimentary history of English.
John Bale, Baleus, ancien carme devenu théologien protestant dans les années 1530, est né le 21 novembre 1495 à Cove ( Suffolk) 1 et mort avant le 26 novembre 1563 vraisemblablement à Canterbury où il est inhumé.
John Bale. Ecclésiastique et écrivain anglais (Cove, Suffolk, 1495-Canterbury 1563). Converti au protestantisme, il devint un redoutable pamphlétaire. Animateur de tournées théâtrales antimonastiques, il transforma les « moralités » en drames historiques ( King John, The Three Laws of Nature, Moses and Christ, 1562).
28 janv. 2015 · John Bale was perhaps the most prominent and prolific of the English evangelicals, and most scholars of the early to mid-Tudor Reformation have come into contact with the texts he produced. Bale’s extensive writings range from historical analyses (Actes of the Englyshe Votaryes), through martyrological works (A
4 juil. 2024 · https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/1175/. Date accessed: 04 July 2024. For those historians who have studied the English Reformation or the writing of polemics, histories and plays in the 16th century the name John Bale (1495–1563) appears high on the list of English scholars supporting a reformist agenda.
15 déc. 2022 · JOHN BALE (1495-1563), Bishop of Ossory, was born at the little village of Cove, near Dunwich in Suffolk, on 21 Nov. 1495. His parents were in a humble rank of life; but at the age of twelve he was sent to the Carmelite convent at Norwich, where he was educated, and thence he passed to Jesus College, Cambridge.
