Women and the Early Anglican Liturgy |
The emerging Anglican liturgy of the mid-sixteenth century named contemporary women and influenced their liturgical lives. Queens had special roles in the liturgy and influenced the content of some liturgical prayers. Some women composed prayers for the liturgy as well as for their own use.
Recent Documents 
- Anglican and Catholic Litanies and Primers in England 1544-1559: Web Resources

- Primers and Books of Hours in England 1476-1542: Web Resources

- Queen Katherine Parr's "Praier for men to saie enterying into battayle"

- Women and Early Anglican Liturgical Calendars

- Princess Mary Tudor as Godmother and Benefactor of Midwives and Wetnurses

- Women and the Text of the Early Anglican Litany: Queens, Childbirth, Widows

- Queens and the Use of the Early Anglican Liturgy

- Liturgical Processions during the Reign of Queen Mary I: Documentation

- Royal Maundies of Queen Mary I, Queen Elizabeth I and Queen Elizabeth II

- Queen Katherine Parr and Early Anglican Bidding Prayers
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- The Feast of Mary Magdalene in Modern Anglican Liturgies
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- Queens, Nuns, Pregnant Women and Mothers: Consequences for Women of Henry VIII's 1534 Decree on Bidding Prayers
- Clergy, Nobility, Commoners, the Dead and Henry VIII's Second Decree on Bidding Prayers (1536)
- Henry VIII's 1534 and 1536 Decrees on Bidding Prayers: Unintended Consequences