"[E]ven those who will not go as far as claiming Cranmerian authorship for the collects outright have agreed that the balance of probability lies very much towards establishing him as the translator of a number of Latin collects of the Sarum rite for the new Prayer Book, and the composer of collects for occasions where no model existed, or where the existing model was not adopted. Otherwise, it becomes very difficult to explain their consistency of style, their economy of expression, and in the case of those that are translations or adaptations of Latin originals, their skilful negotiation between two languages, and their deft adjustments of content to conform to Reformation doctrinal precepts."
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Bridget Nichols, 'Introduction', to Bridget Nichols (ed.), The Collect in the Churches of the Reformation (2010), pp. 9-10
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Thomas Cranmer
1489 – 1556
englischer Reformator und Erzbischof von Canterbury
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