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Antipapal

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An`ti`pa´pal
a.1.Opposed to the pope or to popery.


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Although much of this Latin material was deleted from the second 1570 edition, testifying to what King terms "the progressive vernacularity of the Book of Martyrs" (118), the work continued to grow, swollen by antipapal argument and invective whose inclusion struck a nationalistic chord with Foxe's English readership.
2) The possession of William Tyndale's translation of the New Testament (1526), or of any of Tyndale's antipapal tracts, which he wrote under the influence of Lutheran ideas, (3) for example, provides evidence for the reception of continental Protestantism without government intervention.
These lines have always been read in the light of the play's depiction of the proud reunion of the country after the divisions created by the pope's mischievous interdict of the English king--supposedly a parallel to the country's antipapal solidarity in the face of the similar interdict of Elizabeth (1533-1603).
 
 
 
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