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Cheryl Mendelson on Priest Thomas Cranmer & Her New Book, "Vows"

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By Cheryl Mendelson
| AIR MAIL Verified
Archbishop Thomas Cranmer is known for many things, but, surprisingly, not for his most influential act. In 1549, Cranmer completed The Book of Common Prayer, the all-English, Reformationist revision of the Roman Catholic church service. He kept the wedding rite that some Catholic service books had included for centuries, but tweaked it. His most important change was to add the words “to love and to cherish.” The words sound familiar today, but back then they broke with tradition.
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Couples, Stop Writing Your Own Wedding Vows Original

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By Cheryl Mendelson
| The Atlantic Verified
Vow-taking is the centerpiece of most American weddings. It’s an ancient tradition, probably secular in origin, that can be traced back to pre-Conquest Anglo-Normandy. There are 10th-century poems in Old English that allude to love and marriage vows. Over the centuries, the custom of wedding vows—formal promises of the terms of the marriage, spoken before guest witnesses—persisted and spread.
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Africatown: America’s Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created

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By Adam Higginbotham, Sima Samar, Eric Cline, Cheryl Mendelson
| Publishers Weekly Verified
Nick Tabor. St. Martin’s, $29.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-250-76654-0 Journalist Tabor debuts with an eye-opening and often gripping history of more than 100 enslaved West Africans brought to America aboard the Clotilda in 1860 and the Alabama community they created.
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