Dedication to Bible Translation
- William Tyndale
Best new Prayer Book
- Thomas Cranmer
Most Memorable Quotation in a Martyrdom Situation
- Hugh Latimer
Most Determined Attempt to Annoy Everybody by a Renaissance Man
- Michael Servetus
Best Small Church Project
- The Moravian Brethren
Best Art Project
- Michaelangelo
Best Overseas New Media Innovation
- Johannes Gutenberg
Biggest Impact on the Standardisation of the English Language
- William Caxton
Sufferer of the Most Ludicrous Post-Mortem Condemnation
- John Wycliffe
Best Satirical Publication
- Dante, "The Divine Comedy"
Biggest Treacherous Rat-bag
- Sigismund of Luxembourg
Most Implausible yet Irresistible Claim by an Evil Get that a Short-term Expedient has Divine Sanction
- Henry VIII of England for his "Dissolution of the Monasteries"
(Runner-up Henry VIII of England for his "English Reformation")
(3rd place Henry VIII of England for his "no honest, Ann Boleyn is definitely guilty)
Most Imaginative Use of Books (as a fuel)
- Thomas More
Most creative use of a Door
- Martin Luther
Gold, pure gold.
ReplyDeleteSeems a bit hard on Sigismund
ReplyDeleteTotal breach of the Geneva Convention. I thought a Grauniad man would be particularly anti- this kind of thing?
DeleteBest Idea Ignored By Us And Eventually Handed Over To Our Competitors - Erasmus for Humanism.
ReplyDeleteI was going to day something witty about "In Praise of Folly" but wasn't clever enough. The thing Erasmus did that is still with the more conservative Evangelicals is his Greek Bible text, behind the KJV.
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