著者
山本 信太朗 ヤマモト シンタロウ
出版者
神奈川大学人文学研究所
雑誌
人文学研究所報 = Bulletin of the Institute for Humanities Research (ISSN:02877082)
巻号頁・発行日
no.52, pp.77-94, 2014-08-25

In 1530s, Church of England was separated from Roman Catholic Christendom through so-called King Henry VIII’s divorce, while Wales was united to the Kingdom of England by so-called Acts of Union. This article considers what was the relation between the English Reformation and the Union, or what was the influence of the English Reformation on the church and society of Wales. To investigate the subject above, this article takes up the following topics. First, it considers the installation of Bishops who propelled the Reformation policy in their dioceses in Wales. Second, it discusses the role of the Council of the Marches of Wales on the Reformation in Wales. These two topics aim to clarify the promoting force of the protestant religious policy in Wales. In the last section, it considers the importance of the Welsh language on the process of the Reformation in Wales. As Church of England promoted vernacularisation of the service of the church, it needed translation of the Bible and the Book of Common Prayer to Welsh. It was the most important task for the established church propelling the Reformation policy in Wales. On the process of translation, the role of William Morgan( later Bishop of Llandaff, and then of St. Asaph) as the Bible translator was so crucial that deserves further investigation.