John Foxe and the English Reformation (St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History)

John Foxe and the English Reformation (St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History)

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 340 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9781859283516
  • DDC分類 272.6092

Full Description

Part of a series tracing the history of the English Reformation, this volume focuses on the 16th century English martyrologist John Foxe. Foxe's works the "Book of Martyrs" and "Acts and Monuments" are explored particularly in relation to iconography and persecution.

Contents

Introductionin Foxe's "Book of Martyrs", John King; bibliographical aspects of John Foxe, Julian Roberts; shaping the reader in the "Acts and Monuments", Susan Felch; the iconography of the "Acts and Monuments", Margaret Aston, Elizabeth Ingram; 18-century Foxe - evidence for the impact of the "Acts and Monuments" in the "long" 18th century, Eirwen Nicholson; appropriating martyrdom - fears of renewed persecution and the 1632 edition of "Acts and Monuments", Damian Nussbaum; Jean Crespin and the first English martyrology of the Reformation, David Watson; from prophetic to apocalyptic - John Foxe and the writing of history, Tom Betteridge; "in a time of persecution" - new light on the secret Protestant congregation in Marian London, Brett Usher; John Foxe, the "Acts and Monuments" and the development of prophetic interpretation, Andrew Penny; Haemstede and Foxe, Andrew Pettegree; John Foxe, "father of lyes", and the Papists, Glyn Parry. Appendix - a finding list of extant 16th- and 17th-century editions of John Foxe's "Acts and Monuments", David Newcombe.