John Foxe

Foxe's Book of Martyrs

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Herausgeber: King, John N

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Produktbeschreibung

Foxe's Book of Martyrs is a collection of unforgettable accounts of religious persecution. This modernized selection brings together some of the most stirring tales of the interrogation and execution of heretics burnt at the stake in the reign of Mary, with some of the original woodcut illustrations and an illuminating introduction.

Produktdetails

• Oxford World's Classics
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 129mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 278g
• ISBN-13: 9780199236848
• ISBN-10: 0199236844
• Artikelnr.: 25558884

Autorenporträt

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).

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Introduction
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Chronology of Foxe's Life and Times
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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