John Foxe

by Loades, David M.; John Foxe Colloquium 1997 (Oxford, England)

• ISBN13: 9781840146783
• ISBN10: 1840146788
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-02-01
• Publisher: Ashgate Pub Ltd

Summary

This is a wide-ranging and authoritative review of the reception in England and other countries of Foxe's Acts and Monuments of the English Martyrs from the time of its original publication between 1563 and 1583, up to the nineteenth century.Essays by leading scholars deal with the development of the text, the illustrations and the uses to which the work was put by protagonists in subsequent religious controversies. This volume is derived from the second John Foxe Colloquium held at Jesus College, Oxford in 1997. It is one of a number of research publications designed to support the British Academy Project for the publication of a new edition of Foxe's hugely influential text.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables	p. vii
Preface and Acknowledgements	p. ix
Notes on Contributors	p. xi
Abbreviations	p. xii
Introduction: The New Edition of the Acts and Monuments: A Progress Report	p. 1
Tyndale and Foxe	p. 15
Reforming Roman Emperors: John Foxe's Characterization of Constantine in the Acts and Monuments	p. 29
The Unsteady Beginnings of English Protestant Martyrology	p. 52
The Illustrations: Their Pattern and Plan	p. 67
A Case for Luke Shepherd as a Source for John Foxe	p. 85
John Foxe's Last Word	p. 94
Backing Protestantism: The London Godly, the Exchequer and the Foxe Circle	p. 105
Whitgift's 'Book of Martyrs': Archbishop Whitgift, Timothy Bright and the Elizabethan Struggle over John Foxe's Legacy	p. 135
'Oppressed by the Force of Truth': Robert Persons Edits John Foxe	p. 154
Elect Church or Elect Nation? The Reception of the Acts and Monuments	p. 167
John Foxe, Evangelicalism and the Oxford Movement	p. 182
Electric Foxe: A Digital Case History	p. 238
Index	p. 247
Table of Contents provided by Syndetics. All Rights Reserved.