John Foxe and His World

by Highley,Christopher

• ISBN13: 9780754603061
• ISBN10: 0754603067
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-01-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Interest in John Foxe and his hugely influential text Acts and Monuments is particularly vibrant at present. This volume, the third to arise from a series of international colloquia on Foxe, collects essays by established and up-and-coming scholars. It broadly embraces five major areas of early modern studies: Roman Catholicism, women and gender, visual culture, the history of the book and historiography. Patrick Collinson provides an entire overview of the field of Foxe studies and further essays place Foxe and his work within the context of their times.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	xi
Preface and Acknowledgments	xv
Notes on Contributors	xvii
Abbreviations	xix
The World of John Foxe: An Introduction	1	(9)
John N. King
John Foxe and National Consciousness	10	(27)
Patrick Collinson
Part One Historiography
The End of History: Thomas Norton's ``v periodes'' and the Pattern of English Protestant Historiography	37	(17)
Anthony Martin
John Foxe and the Anglo-Saxons	54	(19)
Benedict Scott Robinson
A Tudor Deborah? The Coronation of Elizabeth I, Parliament, and the Problem of Female Rule	73	(18)
Dale Hoak
Part Two History of the Book
Elizabeth I, Savior of Books: John Bale's Preface to the Scriptorum illustrium maioris Brytanniae...catalogus (1559)	91	(11)
J. Christopher Warner
``The booke, the leafe, yea and the very sentence'': Sixteenth-Century Literacy in Text and Context	102	(15)
Cynthia Wittman Zollinger
Little Foxes	117	(16)
David Scott Kastan
Part Three Visual Culture
Illustrating the Book: A Protestant Dilemma	133	(12)
Andrew Pettegree
Truth and History in Foxe's Acts and Monuments	145	(15)
Thomas Betteridge
Transfiguring Theology: William Perkins and Calvinist Aesthetics	160	(23)
Lori Anne Ferrell
Part Four Roman Catholicism
Richard Verstegan's Book of Martyrs	183	(15)
Christopher Highley
``Libels and payntinges'': Elizabethan Catholics and the International Campaign of Visual Propaganda	198	(18)
Richard Williams
``Campion dead bites with his friends' teeth'': Representations of an Early Modern Catholic Martyr	216	(19)
Scott Pilarz
Part Five Women and Gender
Doctors, Silly Poor Women, and Rebel Whores: The Gendering of Conscience in Foxe's Acts and Monuments	235	(14)
Marsha S. Robinson
Editing Anne Askew's Examinations: John Bale, John Foxe, and Early Modern Textual Practices	249	(14)
Sarah E. Wall
Polemical Potency: The Witness of Word and Woodcut	263	(14)
Deborah Burks
Afterword: John Foxe in the Twenty-First Century	277	(14)
David Loades
Index	291