In 2019, I wrote a university thesis about concepts of history, change, and time in the 15th and 16th centuries. Part of this thesis included …
JOHN FOXE’S CONCEPT OF HISTORY AND TIME
John Foxe
WHAT’S IN A NAME: REFORMATION IN HISTORY
The first use in the English language of ‘reformation’ to specifically refer to the religious reform movement beginning in the sixteenth century was in 1531 by William Barlow, bishop of Chichester, a supporter of the Reformation, who wrote: ‘Martyn Luther was iugged to be syngulerly chosen of god…for a dew reformacion of the hole worlde.’
