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<p align="center"><font size="5"><b><font size="6">ABSTRACT</font></b></font><br>ഀ
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<div align="left">　　<font size="4">This paper explores the use of typological arguments in Reformation texts and demonstrates that in order for us to fully appreciate their significance we have to consider the historical contexts within which they operate. I begin my discussion of typology in the paratext of two Tudor historians, John Bale and John Foxe and develop my argument more fully in a consideration of the paratext of English Bibles from 1535 to 1560. In the prefaces to Reformation English Bibles, typological strategies were densely interwoven with the political fabric. To serve political necessity, biblical types, constituting sets of attributes and events, were selectively abstracted by Reformation writers to be reconfigured and realised as English Tudor supertypes.<br>ഀ
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<div align="center"><font size="4"><b>Key words: Typology, history, politics, Bible, Tudor myth</b></font></div>ഀ
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