Rainolds, John

Rainolds or Reynolds, John

(both: rĕn`əldz), 1549–1607, English clergyman and biblical scholar. He was a fellow (1568–86) of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and later president (1598–1607) of the college. He was a leading Puritan representative at the Hampton Court Conference (1604). He suggested to King James I that a new translation of the Bible be undertaken, and he assisted in translating the Prophets for the King James Version.

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28; and Mordechai Feingold, 'Rainolds, John (1549-1607)', ODNB.

Turning catholic: Peele's The Battle of Alcazar and Captain Thomas Stukeley

Nicholas Carr, Bartholomew Clerke, John Rainolds, John Case, and Laurence Humphrey appear (with patrons like Philip Sidney and the Earl of Leicester) as part of an intricate web; and even the driest fields bear succulent fruits: Rainolds' De romanae ecclesiae idololatria is shown to containk a |high-powered aesthetic and metaphysical' discussion of |the nature of the visual image' (329); while the chapter on legal writings produces fascinating evidence of the relations between poetry and the law.

Intellectual Culture in Elizabethan and Jacobean England: The Latin Writings of the Age