Miles Coverdale
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Renaissance
- Categories: Literature, Publishing, Religion, Ethics
- Subcategories: Reformation, Christianity, Christians, Churches, Protestantism, Protestants, Priests, Ministers, Clergy
- Curriculum: British History, Renaissance History
Article abstract: The first translator of the complete and official Bible into English, Coverdale in the late Elizabethan era provided a link between the English Reformation and the first English Puritans.
Early Life
Miles Coverdale was born about 1488 in Yorkshire, England, probably in the city of York. Little is known about his family or about his early childhood years. He studied philosophy and theology at Cambridge, became a priest at Norwich in 1514 when he was twenty-six, and entered the convent of Augustinian friars at Cambridge. His friend John...
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