John Foxe and his World

Christopher Highley, John N. King

• Contents: Preface; The world of John Foxe: an introduction, John N. King; John Foxe and national consciousness, Patrick Collinson; Historiography: The end of history: Thomas Norton’s ’v periodes’ and the pattern of English Protestant historiography, Anthony Martin; John Foxe and the Anglo-Saxons, Benedict Scott Robinson; A Tudor Deborah? The coronation of Elizabeth I, Parliament, and the problem of female rule, Dale Hoak; History of the book: Elizabeth I, Savior of books: John Bale’s preface to the Scriptorum illustrium maioris Brytanniae...catalogus (1559), J. Christopher Warner; The booke, the leafe, yea and the very sentence: 16th-century literature in text and context, Cynthia Wittman Zollinger; Little Foxes, David Scott Kastan; Visual Culture: Illustrating the book: a Protestant dilemma, Andrew Pettegree; Truth and history in Foxe’s Acts and Monuments, Thomas Betteridge; Transfiguring theology: William Perkins and Calvinist aesthetics, Lori Anne Ferrell; Roman Catholicism: Richard Verstegan’s Book of Martyrs, Christopher Highley; ’Libels and payntinges’: Elizabethan Catholics and the international campaign of visual propaganda, Richard Williams; Campion dead bites with his friends’ teeth: representations of an early modern Catholic martyr, Scott R. Pilarz; Women and gender: Doctors, silly poor women and rebel whores: the gendering of conscience in Foxe’s Acts and Monuments, Marsha S. Robinson; Editing Anne Askew’s Examinations: John Bale, John Foxe and early modern textual practices, Sarah E. Wall; Polemical potency: the witness of word and woodcut, Deborah Burks; Afterword: John Foxe in the 21st century, David Loades; Index.

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