Paul Ayris

Open access e-books: the role of the institution

This article explains the policy position taken by University College London (UCL) in establishing the UCL Press. It sets the creation of the Press against the background of national open access (OA) policy development in the UK. UCL Press, repatriated from a commercial provider, was relaunched as an OA press as part of UCL Library Services on 1 August 2013. The Press will publish both OA electronic journals and OA monographs, with a particular emphasis in the latter on the arts, humanities and social sciences. UCL is largely funding Press activity from its own internal funds, seeing OA as an opportunity rather than a threat.

How should we fund open access monographs and what do you think is the most likely way that funding will happen

The contributors to the Insights OA monograph supplement were invited to respond to this question, and their thought-provoking and sometimes conflicting replies below make interesting reading.

A LIBER Passport

The Bologna Process started on 19 June 1999, when 29 European Ministers responsible for Higher Education signed the Bologna declaration, in which they undertook to create a European Higher Education Area. The creation of the European Higher Education Area should be completed by 2010. The main objectives of the Bologna declaration are to increase the mobility and employability of European higher education graduates, thus ensuring competitiveness of European Higher Education on the world scale.

The Rule of Thomas Cranmer in Diocese and Province

Abstract Thomas Cranmers register in Lambeth Palace Library is little known and not yet published. This article surveys and summarizes the authors researches over twenty-five years in preparing an edition of that document. The register is not as complete as many medieval Canterbury registers. Nonetheless, it shows how the royal supremacy developed in a church cut off from Roman jurisdiction. There are many parallels with medieval patterns of ecclesiastical jurisdiction, and Cranmer seems to have been unable or unwilling to make large-scale changes in prevailing practice. Nonetheless, during the reign of Edward VI, the register illustrates a reforming archbishop at work, as he tried to implement evangelical reforms in diocese and province. The untimely death of Edward VI cut short these reforming measures, and the accession of Mary led to Cranmers deprivation, when the formal record of his register ends.

Thomas Cranmer and his Godly Prince: New evidence from his Collections of Lawe

Abstract In this article, the nature and evolution of Thomas Cranmers concept of the ‘Godly Prince’ is analysed. The archbishops Collections of Lawe at Lambeth Palace have never before been studied by scholars, but they shed important and vivid new light on Cranmers views. The article argues that there are no real parallels with Luthers views, although it is now impossible to trace how Cranmer arrived at his concepts. First in Cranmers thought came the rejection of papal supremacy. The role of the ‘Godly Prince’ then filled the resulting vacuum. Arguably, Cranmers greatest contributions to the idea of the ‘Godly Prince’ were made at the coronation of Edward VI and in the literature which he wrote against the rebellions in the south-west and in Norfolk. Cranmers views developed as he had to tackle political, doctrinal and religious challenges in his role as Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of all England and Metropolitan.

Thomas Cranmer's register: little understood and unpublished

Abstract Thomas Cranmers register in Lambeth Palace Library is a document which is little understood and as yet unpublished. Episcopal registers trace the work of bishops and archbishops in their dioceses and provinces. As such, they are fundamental primary source documents. In a series of two articles, the author will first examine the composition and history of use of Thomas Cranmers register and then, in a second article to be published in the next issue of this journal (RRR 7.1), set the contents of the register in the context of modern historical scholarship. This article fulfils the first of these two aims.

The Public Career of Thomas Cranmer

Abstract The principal source for information on the public career of Thomas Cranmer is his archiepiscopal register in Lambeth Palace, and the author is currently editing this document for publication. Nonetheless, important material concerning Archbishop Cranmers role in church and state also survives in episcopal and capitular archives around the country. Over 20 years, the author has identified and transcribed this material, and the fruits of this work arc presented in this article. Cranmers role as archbishop was profoundly modified by the issue of a royal commission in 1535, which effectively made him a royal civil servant. During the ascendancy of Thomas Cromwell as the kings vicegerent, Cranmer was eclipsed as the principal minister of the kings spiritual jurisdiction. The evidence for this claim is presented in the form of a calendar of part of Cromwells register as vicegerent. The final part of the article presents in transcription the visitation Articles and Injunctions for Cranmers visitation of the diocese of Norwich in 1550. This sensational discovery provides evidence for a theological and liturgical revolution in England in the middle of Edward VIs reign.