Foxe's Book of Martyrs

Select Narratives
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-19-923684-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 197 mm, Gewicht: 275 g

'Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man: we shall this day light such a candle by God's grace in England, as, I trust, shall never be put out.'

Hugh Latimer's famous words of consolation to Nicholas Ridley as they are both about to be burnt alive for heresy come from John Foxe's magisterial Acts and Monuments, popularly known as the Book of Martyrs. This vast collection of unforgettable accounts of religious persecution exerted as great an influence on early modern England and New England as the Bible and the Book of Common Prayer. It contains many stirring stories of the apprehension, interrogation, imprisonment, and execution of alleged heretics. The narratives not only attest to the fortitude of individuals who suffered for their faith not many years before the birth of Shakespeare, but they also constitute exciting tales filled with graphic details and verbal wit.

This modernized selection also includes some of the famous woodcuts that illustrated the original text, as well as providing a comprehensive introduction to Foxe's life and times and the martyrology narrative.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Foxe, John

King, John N.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religiöser Fundamentalismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- Select Bibliography

- Chronology of Foxe's Life and Times

- Select Narratives

- 1: Thomas Bilney

- 2: William Tyndale

- 3: Anne Askew

- 4: John Roger

- 5: Lawrence Sanders

- 6: John Hooper

- 7: Rowland Taylor

- 8: Thomas Tomkins

- 9: William Hunter

- 10: Rawlins White

- 11: George Marsh

- 12: Thomas Haukes

- 13: John Bradford and John Leaf

- 14: Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley

- 15: Stephen Gardiner

- 16: John Philpot

- 17: Bartlett Green

- 18: Thomas Cranmer

- 19: The Guernsey Martyrs

- 20: Joan Waste

- 21: William Dangerfield

- 22: Richard Woodman

- 23: Rose Allin and other Colchester Martyrs

- 24: George Eagles

- 25: The Islington Martyrs

- 26: Prest's Wife

- 27: Edwin Sandys

- 28: Lady Elizabeth

- 29: Judgement Tales

- Explanatory Notes

- Glossary of Persons

- Glossary of Places

- Glossary of Words and Terms

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

John N. King is editor of Reformation and co-editor of Literature and History. His publications include English Reformation History: The Tudor Origins of the Protestant Tradition (Princeton UP, 1982), Milton and Religious Controversy: Satire and Polemic in Paradise Lost (CUP, 2000), and Foxe's Book of Martyrs and Early Modern Print Culture (CUP, 2006).