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From: "Tony Fuller" <>
Subject: [HWE] 14th and 15th centuries - were there any Anglicans?
Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 22:41:10 +0100


Hi folks

I'll leave the debate on women to others, just to suggest that Unbridled Spirits, Women of the English revolutuion, 1640-1660, by Stevie Davies, The Women's press London is a really good insight into En glish women in a period of religious and political unrest.

Peter asked: Was the use of the term 'Protestant' applicable during the 14th and 15th century to Huguenots, or did it only apply to 'Anglicans' ?

I think we discussed this a few months ago. The use of Protestant derived from people who protested at being forced to make religious suplications in Europe, during the time that Luther and his contemporaries were active and it is from them that Protestant comes, and from what I have read it was until the 17th century a mainly European term .

Huguenot was not a term particularly widely used in France and from what I have read, the term Calvinist was more widely used. Calvin was not born until the beginning of the 16th century and other Reformist clergymen and thinkers were strill formulating their ideas at that time, based on the tenets of Luther, who was a 15th century figure.

Anglicans by definition applies to people following the dictats of the Church of England, the Anglican Communion. The Church did not exist before the divorce argument engineered by Henry VIII, shortly after his divorce in 1533, viz in the 16th century. Therefore, as the Anglican Church did not exist in the 14th and 15th centuries, the term Protestant could not apply to it.

Hope this helps

Regards

Tony Fuller




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